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    Operation Weserübung (German: Unternehmen Weserübung [ˈveːzɐˌʔyːbʊŋ], transl. Operation Weser Exercise, 9 April – 10 June 1940) was the invasion of Denmark...
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  • border) to guard the German rear during the Invasion of Poland and Unternehmen Weserübung by other parts of the German armed forces. In preparation of the...
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    Location Operation Date Notes Norway Operation Weserübung (German: Unternehmen Weserübung) 9 April 1940 German attack on Norway and Denmark Cross English...
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    after Germany's military conquests of Poland, Denmark and Norway (Unternehmen Weserübung), as well as Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and France (Westfeldzug)...
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  • was the code word to begin German submarine operations during Operation Weserübung - Nazi Germany's invasion of Denmark and Norway. Occasionally these operations...
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    first deployed during the invasions of Norway and Denmark in Operation Weserübung in April 1940. In this operation the Fallschirmjäger were deployed on...
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    Operation Viking (German: Unternehmen Wikinger) was a German naval sortie into the North Sea by six destroyers of the Kriegsmarine on 22 February 1940...
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    named Operation Platinum Fox (Unternehmen Platinfuchs). The second pincer, codenamed Operation Arctic Fox (Unternehmen Polarfuchs), was to be launched...
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    Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion (German: Unternehmen Seelöwe), was Nazi Germany's code name for their planned invasion of the United...
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    Operation Wonderland (Unternehmen Wunderland) was an operation from 16 to 30 August 1942 by the Kriegsmarine in the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea off the...
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    Operation Zitronella, also known as Unternehmen Sizilien (Operation Sicily), was an eight-hour German raid on Spitzbergen, in the Svalbard Archipelago...
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    Operation Zarin ( English: Tsarina [Unternehmen Zarin]) was a German minelaying operation off the north-western coast of the islands of Novaya Zemlya...
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  • Operation Ikarus (Unternehmen Ikarus or Fall Ikarus in German) was a Second World War German plan to invade Iceland, which had been occupied by British...
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  • attacked from Petsamo to Murmansk in Operation Platinum Fox (German: Unternehmen Platinfuchs). The attack failed and the corps never reached its goal...
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    assigned all flying units intended for the conquest of Norway (Operation Weserübung) to the corps. The X. Fliegerkorps was active there from April 1940 onwards...
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    Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers and on 16 August, Admiral Scheer conducted Unternehmen Wunderland, a sortie against Russian ships thought to be sailing along...
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    Operation Safari (German: Unternehmen Safari) was a German military operation during World War II aimed at disarming the Danish military. It led to the...
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  • Baranowitschi, VI 1942 – 11 X 1943. {Possibly participated in reprisals after Unternehmen "Hermann" (August 1943) and especially in the execution of 11 nuns?]...
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    command of Vice-Admiral Oskar Kummetz, on Admiral Hipper set sail in Unternehmen Regenbogen (Operation Rainbow). After Convoy PQ 18, the force had waited...
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    Staffeln of JG 2 were ordered to Aalborg Airfield in support of Operation Weserübung, the German assault on Denmark and Norway. The two squadrons returned...
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    mine at Petsamo. The joint Finnish–German Operation Silver Fox (German: Unternehmen Silberfuchs; Finnish: operaatio Hopeakettu) was started on 29 June 1941...
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    delivery expected in March/April 1940 but this was forestalled by Operation Weserübung, the German invasion of Norway of 9 April 1940. At the outbreak of hostilities...
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    British naval intelligence in June reported Operation Rösselsprung (Unternehmen Rösselsprung, Operation Knight's Move), the German plan to bring out...
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    Operation Doppelschlag (Operation Double Blow/Unternehmen Doppelschlag) was a German plan for a sortie in 1942 during the Second World War into the Arctic...
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  • and other Nazi officials and seize control of the German government. Weserübung – Weser Exercise (commonly, Water Exercise); invasion of Denmark and Norway...
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  • group) of Jagdgeschwader 77 (JG 77—77th Fighter Wing). During Operation Weserübung (9 April – 10 June 1940), the German assault on Denmark and Norway, Carganico...
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    to assist in planning the invasions of Denmark and Norway, Operation Weserübung. A directive for the invasion was published on 1 March 1940. Göring complained...
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  • days without in-port replenishment or repair). April 3 – WWII: Operation Weserübung: German ships set out for the invasion of Norway. April 4 – Neville Chamberlain...
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    Operation Berlin (German: Unternehmen Berlin) was a raid conducted by the two German Scharnhorst-class battleships against Allied shipping in the North...
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    Operation Northern Mark (Unternehmen Nordmark) was a sortie by a German flotilla of two battleships and a heavy cruiser against British merchant shipping...
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