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Norway WWII GB 2010! Want to join the cold fun?

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  • Member since
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  • From: Truro Nova Scotia, Canada
Posted by SuppressionFire on Saturday, April 24, 2010 7:27 AM

If only my Mosquito wasn't 3000 miles away! I believe the air attacks on German shipping were some of the most precise strafing missions of the European conflict for both sides. The pilots knew a downed aircraft or bailing out into the ice cold waters was certain death, the ship crews must have been terrorized at any sound of aircraft approaching.

Too many GB commitments, sorry fellas I can't join this one at this time.Crying

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  • From: Goteborg / Sverige
Posted by Svenne Duva on Saturday, April 24, 2010 7:21 AM

Looked in the GB forum but could find no entry.
Are we doing this or not?

sic transit gloria mundi

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  • From: Goteborg / Sverige
Posted by Svenne Duva on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:21 PM

Hi Lasse,

I would like to join with a Pz.Kpfw.II.
My Grandfather did serve on the Swedish side of the border to Norway 1941 - 1944.
The group exchanged fire with German boarder patrol on occasion helping people over to the Swedish side.
He was from Avesta where a German Ammunition Train blew up in 1941.
One theory is that the explosion went of to early and that it was a British SOE operation aiming at disrupting the train-traffic of German soldiers and supply through Sweden to the North of Norway and Finland, the so called "Permittenttrafiken".

Svenne



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  • From: Kristiansund, Norway
Posted by Huxy on Monday, April 12, 2010 10:59 AM

Sweet Ernest! Nice!

Michael, yeah.. You better find something alright Pirate

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Posted by mg.mikael on Sunday, April 11, 2010 12:55 PM

Ouuuu, another Norway WWII GB! Hmmm......gotta see if I have anything in the stash.

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Posted by bufflehead on Saturday, April 10, 2010 11:19 PM

Lasse, I just signed up on the GB thread!

Ernest

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Norway WWII GB 2010! Want to join the cold fun?
Posted by Huxy on Friday, April 9, 2010 7:16 AM

As the clock ticks towards the 9th April, the 70 year anniversary of the start of the Blitzkrieg, the invasion of Denmark and Norway, the first action the German Fallschirmjägers would see, the first defeat of the Third Reich; Operation Weserubüng started.


Norway WWII hosts a very, very wide range of subjects to build... All from ships such as the Blücher, Tirpitz, Bismarck, and thousands of others both US, UK and German... Even Russian at some point. Even Norwegian warships too, and our armed merchant fleet. Norway had the third largest merchant fleet at the time, and much of that was armed during WWII, going from England to Norway and back.
Not to even mention the U-boats Germany had stationed here since they occupied, till the war was ended. Some of the largest U-boat bunkers were built here.

That was only the naval part. You have planes, from the Gloster Gladiators outclassing the BF109 (Yes, I am serious), to JU-52 dropping out Fallschirmjägers (German paratroopers saw their first combat ever in Norway). Even a Mosquito bombing the Gestapo headquarters in Oslo, or a spitfire reconnaisance? You can even do a Lancaster, and even a Horsa glider full of special forces!
In late-war, even a P-51D Mustang dogfights against BF109-G's are possible. Did I mention the B17's too?

As for armour, you had two panzerdivisions in Norway. One left for the Eastern front in summer of 1942, and the other was probably the only panzerdivision ever to use Panzer I tanks from start to end as their main force.
French armour were also inserted in Narvik (The very first defeat Germany had during WWII), and the German prototype Neubaufahrzeug were set into combat-use here. 4 were produced, one stayed in Germany and the other 3 were all scrapped at the end of the war. As a matter of fact, you can EVEN build late-war Russian tanks, as the Russians also invaded North-Norway at the end of the war...

Else of that, you can do the very unknown Police Forces (No police, it was a covername), French Foreign Legion, French army, Russian army, Gestapo, Norwegian resistance (Looked to be one of the firecest during WWII), Royal airforce in all forms and kinds, USAAF, Luftwaffe, the great naval ships, the hundreds, if not a thousand U-boats stationed here.....

After this too long post, you may see the scale of the chaos that happened up here in the North.. Sadly, it is very rarely spoken off!





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