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In the early hours of April 10th 1940, Commander Bernard Warbuton Lee led his flotilla of destroyers against a German force twice its size at Narvik, in the far north of Norway. Without waiting for reinforcements, the British ships caught their opponents completely unawares, resulting in a furious exchange of torpedoes and gunfire, as the German crews scrambled to fight off their attackers, and tried to hunt down the British ships.

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0:00 - Intro
0:34 - The Invasion of Norway
2:57 - The Approach to Narvik
4:48 - The Raid
7:01 - The Pursuit

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Artwork by:
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Lead animation by CKD Productions

Written, Animated, Directed and Produced by:
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Sources:

David Greentree & David Campbell, British Destoryer vs German Destroyer: Narvik 1940

Richard Petrow, The Bitter Years: The invasion and Occupation of
Denmark and Norway April 1940-May 1945 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974).

Corelli Barnett, Engage The Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War (London: Penguin, 1991)

James Holland, The War in the West – A New History Vol. 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 (kindle edition)

Henrik Lunde, Hitler’s Preemptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940. (kindle edition)

Earl Ziemke, German Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945. (kindle edition)