Naval battles and air attacks off Norway, 1940

A large warship lies in a fjord before a range of mountains, guns flash in the half-light and a ship burns; the bow of a sunken ship rises from the water among smoking wrecks. Sailors in hooded coats stand at a gun on deck as single-engined aircraft pass; bombs throw up columns of water beside warships far below an aircraft's glazed nose, gunners in round helmets fire into the sky, an aircraft falls, and a destroyer heels at speed across a grey sea.

In the Ofotfjord off Narvik British destroyers attacked the ten German destroyers that had landed troops there, on 10 April 1940 and again on 13 April, when the battleship Warspite led the attack; all ten German ships were lost. For the rest of the campaign German aircraft attacked Allied warships and transports along the coast, and on 8 June the aircraft carrier Glorious was sunk by German battleships.