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That night and next morning, German expeditionary forces steamed into Narvik, Trondheim, Stavanger, Bergen, Oslo. At Narvik German destroyers coming in through a snowstorm sank two old Norse coast defense ships at their moorings and one armed British ship, before they could fire a shot. At all other ports except Oslo and Kristiansand, landings were made without fighting...
...arrived off Narvik accompanied by the remains of the H-class destroyers, plus the heavier (1,870 ton) "Tribal" destroyer flotilla including the famed Cossack (which raided the prison ship Altmark in Norwegian waters in February). This heavy force plowed up the fjord, silenced the Nazis' shore guns, sank seven destroyers, stood by to watch Norwegian shore forces clean out the landing party of 5,000 Nazis...
...Germany provided the usual week's food for argument when a squadron of Heinkel bombers stooped to a British convoy near the Shetland Islands. The Nazi pilots claimed they scattered the convoy, hit six ships, set one afire, sank one patrol boat. The British denied any ship was hurt and described how one of the Heinkels, diving through clouds to escape a British pursuit squadron, came out below only to encounter other pursuits, craftily flying a lower level patrol. These shot the Heinkel down...
Then, two laps from the finish, the pony express got steamed up. Off went Rice like a quarter-miler. While 14,000 spectators stood on their toes and yelled themselves hoarse-and Tutor Nurmi sank forlornly to a wooden bench in the infield-Rice tore around the Garden like a tornado, broke the tape 28 yards in front of Maki, 20 yards in front of onetime Record-Holder Don Lash, who had also whizzed past the Finn. Rice's time (13:52.3) not only broke the world's record he set six weeks ago, but was only...
Next day a squadron of Heinkels swooped on a British convoy near the Orkney Islands. They let go several tons of their "problem children." The British said three neutral merchant ships were hit and two had to be abandoned. The Germans said they dispersed the convoy, sank nine warships and merchantmen, totaling some 42,000 tons, damaged two merchantmen totaling 11,000 tons...