Namsos campaign
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The Namsos campaign, in Namsos, Norway, and vicinity took place between Anglo-French and Norwegian naval and military forces against German military, naval and air forces in April and early May 1940.
British troops pick through the ruins of Namsos after a German air raid, April 1940.
British PoWs in Trondheim April 1940.
The bombed-out town of Steinkjer
HMS Bittern ablaze in Namsos Fjord after having suffered a direct hit in the stern by an aerial bomb.
Lord Mountbatten
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Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, and member of the British royal family. A m
Namsos campaign
…evacuate Namsos, and on 29 April, an evacuation convoy of destroyers, three British and one French, left Scapa Flow in Scotland under the command of Lord Louis Mountbatten. A larger naval force followed at a distance to protect them against attack by German warships. They were bombed on 1 May as they crossed the North…
Mountbatten in 1973
Portrait by Philip de László, 1925
Prince Edward with his staff all wearing kimono during the Pacific visit to Japan in 1922. (Mountbatten standing, first from left). The Rising Sun Flag in the background.
Mountbatten inspecting sailors before the Bruneval Raid, February 1942