Norway received the ultimatum on April 9, 1940 and was occupied on June 10. ***63 days, 1512 hours of total subjugation.

The Battle of Norway was an offensive campaign carried out by the Nazi German army to capture Norway during World War II. When the morning of April 9, 1940 arrived as scheduled, the Norwegian government received an ultimatum from Germany.

At noon on April 9, 1940, the German army, mainly composed of paratroopers and infantry, marched directly into the capital of Norway. The then German Air Attaché, Captain Spiller, led two companies of German paratroopers in an attempt to completely wipe out the Norwegian resistance in one fell swoop. However, the subsequent development of the facts was that as soon as they arrived near Hamar, they encountered extremely stubborn resistance from the local armed forces, which eventually caused the Germans to suffer heavy losses and retreat in embarrassment.

After the German head of state Hitler learned about this situation, he immediately ordered the Luftwaffe to conduct a large-scale indiscriminate bombing of the King of Norway who was hiding in the village of Neubergsong. However, despite this, a miracle happened. Not only was the King of Norway safe and sound in the end, but he also reorganized the separated Norwegian troops, and fought life-or-death duels with the Germans in two months.

Of course, Norway is a small country after all. Therefore, in the end, the German army successfully occupied Norway after losing 10 destroyers and 3 cruisers.

In this battle, the Norwegians suffered about 1,700 casualties, the British suffered about 4,400 casualties, the French and Polish troops lost 530 people, while the Germans suffered 1,317 killed, 2,375 missing, and 1,604 disabled.

The German Air Force lost 127 aircraft and the Western Allies lost 112 aircraft. The British Navy sank 2 aircraft carriers, 2 cruisers, 7 torpedo ships, and 4 submarines. France and Poland suffered 1 torpedo ship and 1 submarine each. The German Navy lost 3 cruisers, 10 destroyers, 4 submarines, and more than 10 small ships. The two German battleships "Sanghurst" and "Gneisenau" were severely damaged.

With the Battle of Norway, Germany preserved the vital iron ore transportation line, consolidated the defense of Germany's northern side, and gained many important strategic strongholds. The German army occupied Norway and approached the Swedish border, which made neutral Sweden fully switch to Germany in diplomacy, allowing Germany to enter the Narvik area and northern Finland through its territory to transport troops and supplies.

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The Norwegian Campaign used land, sea and air three-dimensional combat tactics for the first time, writing a new chapter in the history of human warfare. There are two implications for this landing operation.

Revelation 1: Unified command is the primary condition for the success of landing operations.

In this landing operation, due to the dispute between the British and French army and navy commanders, the army and navy did not know which order to obey, which resulted in the British army being unable to land at Narvik. Moreover, after the German troops landed, the British troops argued with each other about the location of the counterattack, were indecisive, and argued endlessly. As a result, they lost the best opportunity to counterattack when the German troops had not stabilized their foothold.

No matter what kind of operation, there must first be an efficient and authoritative joint command structure to implement a high degree of centralization and unification, including the objectives, tactics, time, location and command relationships of the landing operation.

Revelation 2: Implementing preemptive strikes is a key factor in the success of landing operations.

Preemption is an important principle in combat guidance. As long as a sudden attack can be launched and the combat objective is achieved, the certainty of success will be greatly increased.

Before the British and French forces landed in Norway, the German army successfully took advantage of the slow response and hesitation of the British and Norwegian troops to land first, and carried out a preemptive strike against the British and French troops. The intervention actions of the latter two Too sluggish to break the air superiority the Luftwaffe had already seized.

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