Word: juggernauts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fossum forts, southwest of Oslo, Norse garrisons fought bitterly. Elsewhere the Nazi juggernaut rolled comfortably from town to town, in its own lorries and commandeered busses. With the occupation of Sarpsborg and Halden it reached the lower Swedish border and threatened Sweden's flank behind her main southern defense zone...
...West the Germans did not even originally have easy going. Norse resistance around Bergen was stiff. This week the Allies began to land in force. When British troops were reported advancing as far south and as far inland as Hamar to turn back the German juggernaut, the campaign, largely out of Norwegian hands, entered its next phase...
...Danes did as bid, laying aside their arms, getting on with their work as usual-all except the guard at the Royal Palace in Copenhagen, never before invaded by foreign troops. The guards led by Count Valdemar, deemed it their duty to challenge the grey juggernaut as it entered the palace courtyard...
...Karelian Isthmus, tired Finnish defenders stood firm under fresh concatenations of heavy Red artillery, replying with their own shells to break up the enemy's attempts to advance. At the Mannerheim Line's right centre, north of its gaping break-through at Summa, the Red juggernaut inched forward. In the suburbs of Viipuri, out on the ice and islands of the bay, and southwest along the coast where the Reds had won a few footholds, fighting raged as the 105th morning wore on. The Russians claimed that now Viipuri. where the first shots for Finnish independence were fired...