• the Battle of Dombås was a German attempt during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign at using Fallschirmjägers to cut rail and road links in central Norway?
• the Norwegian coastal steamer SS Barøy replaced a vessel sunk by the Royal Navy during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign and was herself sunk by the Fleet Air Arm the next year?
• because of its total lack of anti-tank guns, the Norwegian Army was forced to employ Model 1901 field guns (pictured) against German Panzers during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign?
• Skorpa prisoner of war camp was the main Norwegian POW camp in Northern Norway during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign, holding some 500 German military and civilian prisoners?
• Fredrik Kayser volunteered for the Winter War, served in the Norwegian Campaign, and helped sabotage the Nazi nuclear programme?
• HNoMS Honningsvåg was a German fishing trawler captured in the Norwegian Campaign and served the Royal Norwegian Navy throughout World War II?
• Florence J. Harriman, an American socialite, suffragist, diplomat and author, was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940?

Facts on topics related to Norwegian Campaign

Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany

• 29 Norwegian civilians were shot in reprisal by the Nazi regime in Norway following the Norwegian resistance's assassination of police chief Karl Marthinsen in February of 1945?
• Norwegian trade unionist Ludvik Buland, sentenced to death by the Nazi authorities in 1941, was later reprieved, only to die in a Nacht und Nebel camp four years later?
• Kompani Linge's Oslo Detachment, a subgroup of the Special Operations Executive, was the dominant sabotage group in occupied Oslo between May and September 1944?
• Alf Whist, Minister of Industry and Shipping in the Quisling regime, had no political experience prior to joining the Fascist party during Nazi Germany's occupation in the 1940s?
• Carl Fredriksens Transport, an operation that saved 1,000 Norwegians during the Nazi occupation of Norway, was code-named after King Haakon VII's original name?
• Endre Berner, Bjørn Føyn, Carl Jacob Arnholm, Eiliv Skard, Harald K. Schjelderup and Anatol Heintz were among the professors at the University of Oslo who were arrested by Nazis during World War II?
• Erling Sandberg, installed as Finance Minister by Reichskommissariat when Nazis occupied Norway, was acquitted of collaboration with Nazis?
• Francis Bull, a board member of the National Theatre when Nazi Germany occupied Norway in 1940, was arrested in 1941 and spent three years in a concentration camp?
• Hans Kristian Seip, the father of Jens Arup Seip, also had a career of his own in engineering and politics, until removed by the Nazi occupants in Norway in 1941?
• Johannes Andenæs, himself a concentration camp prisoner of Nazis during WWII, criticized the harshness of the legal process against Nazis in Norway after the war?

Battle of Britain

• Battle of Britain pilot Paul Egger was later awarded the Knight's Cross as a Tiger tank commander in the Waffen-SS?
• Flight Lieutenant Eric Lock was the most successful British ace during the Battle of Britain, shooting down 16.5 German aircraft over the course of the 17-week long battle?
• in 2010, the Cotswold Air Show commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, featuring aircraft such as the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane?
• the RAF Memorial Flight Spitfire Mk IIa P7350 is the only surviving Spitfire from the Battle of Britain still flying?
• the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight contains the world's oldest airworthy survivor of the Battle of Britain, alongside ten other historic aircraft - two of which fought over Normandy on D-Day?
  

Battle of France

• pockets of resistance created during the German invasions of France in 1940 and Yugoslavia in 1941 developed into resistance movements that tied down several German divisions?
• René Olry, the commander of the French Army of the Alps during the Battle of France (1940), was a polytechnicien?
• the 1940 Battle of France forced 72-year-old British engineer William Binnie to work for his passage home as a cook's assistant on a collier?

Norwegian resistance movement

• 29 Norwegian civilians were shot in reprisal by the Nazi regime in Norway following the Norwegian resistance's assassination of police chief Karl Marthinsen in February of 1945?
• Max Manus referred to the release of Norwegian resistance member Kolbein Lauring from Grini concentration camp in 1943 as a "miraculous mistake" by the German authorities?
• Milorg resistance member Osmund Faremo later served as member of the national parliament and local mayor for the Norwegian Labour Party?
• Norwegian historian Tore Pryser has criticised the perceived importance of Norwegian resistance members during World War II?
• Norwegian resistance fighter Gregers Gram conducted several sabotage missions together with Max Manus, before being killed in an ambuscade in 1944?
• anti-Nazi resistance fighter Joar Olsen once escaped apprehension by claiming that he drove a Red Cross truck?
• Carl Platou was dismissed from the Ministry of Justice and the Police for listening to a Norwegian resistance radio broadcast in his office?
• Edvard Welle-Strand, father of the anti-Nazi resistance fighter Erling Welle-Strand, was an anti-Semitic writer especially active in the 1910s and 1920s?
• Gunvald Tomstad, a double agent for Norwegian resistance in World War II, acted as a local "ideologist" of the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling?
• Jan Birger Jansen, Johan Scharffenberg and Sven Arntzen, all with background in the Norwegian resistance movement, were later members of the National Association for Referendum?