Word: narvik
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...high post since his return from France, was made only Inspecting General of Forces for Training, while to replace Sir Alan as field commander in the south of England, Lieut. General Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 56, was named. The latter was the hard-bitten infantryman who helped wrestle Narvik from Germany's Lieut. General Eduard ("Bull") Dietl only to see it yielded due to pressure in the Lowlands...
...Bergen and Narvik...
...Narvik...
Thus Britain acquired one more fugitive monarch, lost the only ground she had gained from the Nazis. From Narvik, once a prized ore port, nobody gained anything...
...smashed and wreck-choked harbor, Narvik was no longer a prize...