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unusual facts about Straumsnes, Narvik


Straumsnes

Straumsnes, Narvik, a village in Narvik municipality, Nordland, Norway


Abisko

Daily passenger electric trains run by SJ AB connect Stockholm with the Norwegian city of Narvik, stopping at both the Abisko village (the name of that railway station is Abisko Östra east) and the Abisko Turiststation.

Battle of Bir Hakeim

Erwan Bergot, La Légion au combat, Narvik, Bir-Hakeim, Dièn Bièn Phu, Presses de la Cité, 1975

Battle of Gratangen

Transported by ten destroyers from the Kriegsmarine, the German Task Force under command of General der Infanterie Eduard Dietl had occupied Narvik and the important military depots at Elvegårdsmoen in the early hours of 9 April 1940.

Bjørnfjell

Bjørnfjell, Nordland, a village area in Narvik municipality, Nordland county, Norway

Bjørnfjell Station, a railway station in the village of Bjørnfjell in Narvik, Norway

Bjørnfjell Chapel, a chapel in the village of Bjørnfjell in Narvik, Norway

Frederick Bradnum

After joining the Army, he served in France (1939), Narvik (1940), Crete (1941), and Saint-Nazaire raid (1942), before transferring into administration with the Special Operations Executive.

Hålogaland Hospital

The hospitals in Harstad and Narvik with associated institutions became part of University Hospital of North Norway HF (UNN) on 1 January 2007 and is now known as UNN Harstad and UNN Narvik.

Herbert Hasler

In 1940, Hasler served as fleet landing officer in Scapa Flow, and was then sent to Narvik in support of the French Foreign Legion in the Norwegian campaign, for which duties he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), mentioned in despatches, and awarded the Croix de guerre.

Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship

The Germans captured four of these 12-inch and some 130 mm guns in transit in Narvik harbor when they invaded Norway in April 1940.

Kjersti Stubø

Kjersti Aasan Stubø (born 25 April 1970 in Narvik, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician vocalist, daughter and musical successor of Jazz guitarist Thorgeir Stubø (1943-1986), mother of elektronica musician Mathias Stubø (b. 1992), and sister of Jazz guitarist Håvard and theatre director Eirik Stubø.

Motor Landing Craft

The first use of British landing craft in the Second World War, in an opposed landing, saw the disembarkation of French Foreign Legionnaires of the 13th Demi-Brigade and supporting French Hotchkiss H39 tanks on the beach at Bjerkvik, eight miles (13 km) above Narvik, on 13 May during the Norwegian campaign.

Narvik

There are road connections from Narvik across the mountains eastwards to Abisko and Kiruna, Sweden (via European route E10).

Ofotfjord

The German destroyer Georg Thiele was scuttled and is still visible from around the railway between Straumsnes and Rombak railway station.

Operation Alphabet

Operation Alphabet was an evacuation, authorized on May 24, 1940, of Allied (British, French and Polish) troops from the harbour of Narvik in northern Norway marking the success of Nazi Germany's Operation Weserübung of April 9 and the end of the Allied campaign in Norway during World War II.

Oslo-class frigate

Narvik, the last active ship of the class, has been transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten.

Reichskommissariat Norwegen

It was also agreed that mines would be laid in Norwegian waters and that the mining should be followed by the landing of troops at four Norwegian ports: Narvik, Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger.

Renewable Energy Corporation

In 2002 REC ScanCell started production of multicrystalline solar cells in Narvik for the sister company REC ScanModule in Glava, Arvika.

Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III

Of the twelve main guns, eight made it to Finland, while four were seized by Germany when it invaded Norway in April 1940 and captured them on board the SS Nina in Narvik harbor.

Straumsnes

Straumsnes, Fauske, a village in Fauske municipality, Nordland, Norway

Straumsnes, Møre og Romsdal, a former municipality now in Tingvoll municipality, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Theodore Hallett

He was recalled in World War II to serve as a beachmaster for the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, as a member of the expeditionary force to Narvik in Norway in 1942 and then as Director of Training for the Commandos.

Timeline of the Norwegian Campaign

14: British forces land at Namsos and Harstad as Anglo-French forces prepare to launch operations against German forces at Trondheim and Narvik.


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