Strong formations of British Royal Air Force (RAF) bombers
searched Norwegian and Danish waters for German ships.
In Kristiansand Fjord two warships were attacked. Ammunition
ship blown up and supply ship damaged in Kattegat. Bombing
attacks made on German seaplane base on the Baltic coast.
Four Messerschmitt shot down two more believed destroyed and
others damaged.
Raid by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) on Stavanger aerodrome,
where many German aeroplanes were wrecked.
In course of the day, eight British aircraft shot down, to
more came down in the sea on the way home.
Norwegian communiqué stated that Germans had occupied
Oslo and adjoining region Kristiansand, Stavanger, Bergen
and neighbourhood, Agdense, Trondheim and Vaernes military
station. Rest of southern Norway in Norwegian hands, as also
Northern Norway, with the exception of Narvik. Norway also
stated officially that German battlecruiser
Gneisenau
was sunk in Oslo Fjord also the light cruiser
Emdem
and several smaller ships, that a big warship was sunk by
Norwegian destroyer Aeger at Stavanger, and a cruiser at Bergen.
Several Norwegian warships had been sunk.
The British Admiralty announced that mines had been laid over
considerable area in Skagerrak and Kattegat, and in the North
sea from near Dutch coast to Norwegian coast.
Swedish tanker Sveaborg reported sunk by U-boat off the Scottish
coast.
German trawler Friesland one of several captured of the Norwegian
coast, brought into Scottish port by price crew.
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April
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The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
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