British landings and fighting in Norway, 1940

A heavy warship with a massive bridge tower steams through a fjord and boats crowded with men head for the shore; soldiers in flat, broad-brimmed helmets jump into the shallows and run up a stony beach. Men lie flat in a meadow as shells burst beside a gun, a wounded man is carried through the snow, soldiers climb and run past burning houses at dusk, a machine gunner aims from a window, and men in German helmets come down a snowy slope with their hands raised.

From 14 April 1940 British, French and Polish troops landed near Narvik, at Namsos and at Åndalsnes to support the Norwegians. Lacking air cover and artillery, the forces in central Norway were taken off again between 30 April and 3 May. In the north the Allies took Narvik on 28 May but left Norway in early June, after the German offensive in France had begun.