The Altmark incident (Norwegian: Altmark-affæren; German: Altmark-Zwischenfall) was a naval incident of World War II between British destroyers and the German tanker Altmark, which happened on 16–17 February 1940.It took place in what were, at that time, neutral Norwegian waters. On board the Altmark were roughly 300 Allied prisoners (officially internees), whose …

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Norwegian campaign; Part of Operation Weserübung: The Battle of Narvik saw Norway's toughest fight in World War II; nearly 7,500 Norwegian soldiers participated in the battle, along with British, French and Polish troops.The reconquest of Narvik was the first time the Third Reich war machine had to be removed from a captured city.

HMS Seal was one of six Grampus-class mine-laying submarines of the Royal Navy.She served in the Second World War and was captured by the Kriegsmarine and taken into German service as UB, one of several captured subs.She was the only submarine the Germans captured at sea during World War II. Her capture allowed the Germans to correct a critical fault in their U-boat …

Operation Silver Fox (German: Silberfuchs; Finnish: Hopeakettu) from 29 June to 17 November 1941, was a joint German–Finnish military operation during the Continuation War on the Eastern Front of World War II against the Soviet Union.The objective of the offensive was to cut off and capture the key Soviet Port of Murmansk through attacks from Finnish and Norwegian territory.

The Battle of the River Plate was fought in the South Atlantic on 13 December 1939 as the first naval battle of the Second World War.The Kriegsmarine heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, commanded by Captain Hans Langsdorff, engaged a Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Commodore Henry Harwood, comprising the light cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Achilles (on loan to …

Corinth (/ ˈ k ɒr ɪ n θ / KORR-inth; Greek: Κόρινθος, romanized: Kórinthos, Modern Greek pronunciation: [ˈkorinθos] ()) is the successor to an ancient city, and is a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, which is located in south-central Greece.Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality of Corinth, of which it is the seat and a ...

Danish resistance fighters battling German soldiers 5 May 1945. Flakhaven, Odense (left), Danish SS soldiers disarmed by resistance fighters in Copenhagen, 1945 (right)

The Winter War, also known as the First Soviet-Finnish War, was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland.The war began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks …

The German invasion of Denmark (German: Operation Weserübung – Süd), was the German attack on Denmark on 9 April 1940, during the Second World War.The attack was a prelude to the invasion of Norway (German: Weserübung Nord, 9 April – 10 June 1940).. Denmark's strategic importance for Germany was limited. The invasion's primary purpose was to use Denmark as a …