At this time, the German carrier-based forces were blocked by Norwegian warships and shore guns outside the port of Oslo and were still unable to dock. In order to quickly occupy Oslo, according to the order of the superiors, the airborne troops landing in Forneb formed several parade formations with 1,500 people, tied ribbons on their heads, and under the cover of the aviation forces, they drove along the main streets into the center of Oslo in the posture of ancient conquerors. The Germans, estimating that the Norwegian army would be intimidated by this bluff and would not put up little resistance, included the words in the order: "If possible, complete this mission by peaceful means." It must be presented with a polite but firm gesture.

All resistance should be resolved in the most appropriate way. The arrogance of the German airborne troops surprised an American journalist who lived in the downtown area of Oslo. He wrote: "It was an incredibly small force of thin men, which could be completed in six or seven minutes, and it consisted of only two incomplete battalions. ”

The British advance fleet did not have time to transport the marines ashore because of the battle with the German High Seas Fleet, and the Norwegian army was still stationed in the original capital of Norway.

The bet placed by the Germans was won, and the Norwegian government was not prepared for anything due to the sudden appearance of the Airborne Forces in the capital. At the same time, the actions of the German army were coordinated by the "Fifth Column" of the fascist stereotic organization headed by Gisling, who not only provided the German army with information on the defense system, troop deployment, and military facilities of cities, ports, and airports before the war, but also bribed the relevant personnel in key departments, disturbed the morale of the army, and carried out subversive and sabotage activities, but also when the German army entered Oslo, the Ghisling elements occupied the radio station and issued false orders ordering all fortresses and ships to surrender to the Germans. Thus, the German Airborne Forces bloodlessly occupied the city of 300,000 people. It was the first capital in the world to be occupied by the Airborne Forces. Immediately afterwards, the airborne troops attacked the port from behind and took control of the Oslo Harbor Fortress, allowing more than 2,000 German landing troops to quickly land.

……

Exercise Wiesel Commando 3 was tasked with capturing Sola Airport near Stavanger, an important port city in Norway. The task of capturing the airfield was also completed in two steps: parachute landing and plane landing. The 1st Special Mission Bomber Aviation Regiment 7 Junkers-40 aircraft of the 52nd Battalion, carrying paratroopers from the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the Airborne Forces, first took off from Stadder, Germany, to carry out the task of parachuting into the occupation of the Sola airfield in Stavanger. Over the western sea, the 40 planes rushed into the rain. The squadron leader of the 7th Squadron was Captain Carpenter, and his subordinates had only been trained in single-aircraft instrument flights, and had never been trained in formation instrument flights, let alone actually flown at sea. They didn't even have life jackets with them, and if they collided in the clouds, they would never want to fly again.

The clouds engulfed the entire squadron, and although it was a dense formation that was closely spaced, they could not see each other clearly, and the nearest aircraft looked like shadows. Carpenter counted on a sunny sky over the Norwegian coast, and it would be suicidal to land in the Norwegian valleys with such poor visibility. He decided to continue flying and comforted his men, saying, "The weather will be better in 1 hour, and the clouds will soon dissipate." Soon planes came out of the clouds one by one. The squadron regrouped with 1 aircraft less. It was later learned that the plane had gone on the wrong route and landed in Denmark. The remaining 39 planes continued to fly north against the sea. By 9:20 a.m., the fleet approached Stavanger. The formation then drilled out of the valley at a height of just over 10 meters, then turned north, flew over rolling hills, and finally reached the Sola airfield.

The paratroopers were already ready, hanging the forced parachute line on the steel cable, and the hatches on both sides of the plane were wide open, waiting for the signal to parachute. Kaskit ascended the plane to 120 meters, then closed the throttle and glided down. Although it was dangerous to glide over the 120 meters where the enemy was in high demand, he believed that the parachute jump had to be carried out at a low speed so as not to spread out too much when the troops landed. As the parachute signal sounded, the paratroopers quickly jumped out, and in just a few seconds 12 people from each plane had jumped out, all of them parachuting with weapons with their weapons. After completing the mission, the transport plane increased the throttle, lowered the altitude again, and flew to the dead end of the anti-aircraft gun to return home.

More than 600 paratroopers fell to the ground, and the commander, Captain Brandeis, was under heavy Norwegian machine-gun fire before he could assemble his troops. At this time, most of the Messerschmitt-110 fighters responsible for cover and support had already returned, but fortunately, 2 lost fighters were flying and looking for them, and then they came to Stavanger and immediately entered the battle to provide aviation fire support to the German airborne troops that were landing. The main support points of the Norwegian army were two strong pillboxes next to the airfield. The paratroopers threw grenades into the gun holes of the pillboxes and took only half an hour to capture the airfield, then dismantling the barbed wire fence set up on the runway. In this way, the Sola airfield in Stavanger was made available to airlift troops.

Ten minutes later, the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 193rd Infantry Regiment landed at the airfield. After landing, the troops struck north from the airfield, and after crushing the sporadic resistance of the Norwegians, they resolutely occupied Stavanger.

At the same time, the German landing forces at Christiansund and Bergen, without resistance, went ashore and occupied the two ports.

While the Airborne Forces and Naval Landing Forces were attacking from the air and sea, German bomber units carried out deterrent sorties in the Norwegian cities of Christiansund, Egersund, Stavanger and Bergen, and attacked the Cheler airfield in Oslo, the batteries on the islands of the Oslo Fjord, and the anti-aircraft artillery positions of the Holmenke Union. The Norwegians could not withstand such strong military pressure, and by the evening of 9 April, most of the Norwegian positions were in the hands of the German airborne troops. The command post of the German commander Volkenhorst was then transferred to Norway.

On the first day of the battle, the Germans captured important cities in Norway and Denmark with a small number of paratroopers and infantry units. On the second and third days, in order to strengthen the forces of the airborne lands and ports that had already been occupied, Junkers-52 transport planes and B-29s constantly transported troops and supplies through the air. At this point, the first phase of the German invasion ended.

The second phase of the German operation was to advance northwards before the British moved, linking up the isolated airborne and landing fields occupied in Norway and advancing rapidly into the Norwegian interior in order to take full control of the country.

On 11 April, Germany sent 12 B-29s to the northern Norwegian port of Narvik to reinforce the German forces that had landed two days earlier. The transport planes landed on Lake Hartwig, 16 kilometres north of the port, where they froze, bringing in a mountain howitzer battalion to support the troops occupying the beachhead.

After that, the Germans made full use of every transport plane and did everything they could to strengthen the forces that occupied Trondheim. In order to transport reinforcements and equipment, the Junkers-52 transport aircraft re-landed on the frozen lake. By 18 April, 3,500 German troops had been concentrated in the port city. This action forced the British to rescind their plan to land the 147th Brigade at Trondheim on the 22nd. Considering that the Germans had already established a defense, the British decided to abandon the frontal offensive and throw their troops into Namsos, 160 km north of the city, and Andalsnes, 128 km south of the city. On 16 April, the British 146th Brigade, under the command of Brigadier General Phillips, with two battalions of troops, entered Namssos at night and moved south through Gelon towards Steinchel. On the night of the same day, more than 600 British marines landed at Andalsnes and advanced to the Dangbosch railway junction in an attempt to cut the railway line from Oslo to Trondheim and divide the German army. Two days later, the 148th Brigade of the British Army also landed in Andalsnes.

The Germans, of course, understood the importance of being Bosch, and immediately drew a paratrooper battalion to seize the railway junction. At 5 p.m. on 15 April, 600 paratroopers of the battalion flew to Dangbos on a Junker-52 transport aircraft. Thirty-six aircraft climbed through dense clouds and exited the clouds at an altitude of 900 metres, flying without navigation equipment. The pilot, by estimating time and distance, used the navigation equipment when approaching Dangbosch. The Germans, preparing for the landing of Bosch, were under heavy fire from Norwegian anti-aircraft artillery and had to look for new airborne areas. The company commander, Lieutenant Schmid, found a good landing ground 6 km to the south, and the paratroopers parachuted in the area.

The paratroopers were fired upon by ground fire from the Norwegian army during the airborne landing. The paratroopers and throwing bags landed in snow-covered fields and forest areas, and the landing paratroopers were extremely scattered, gathering only two officers and 161 soldiers by evening. The next morning, this small force cut the railway line south of Dangbos and set up defensive positions, hoping to hold out until reinforcements arrived. But there were 3,500 Norwegians besieging them. Due to the disparity in strength and the inability to receive supplies, the Germans were driven out of their positions on the 17th and retreated to an estate. They held out between the stone buildings until the 19th, and when only 34 soldiers remained, Schmid decided to hold on.

Although the British had some victories at sea and in the port of Narvik, they were unable to extend their gains in time due to bad weather and the slow movement of the landing force. At the same time, the Germans controlled central and southern Norway and were already capable of capturing the north. By 14 September, a large number of SS armoured units had landed, and the attack on Norway had made considerable progress, increasing the number of SS troops landed in Norway to 80,000 to fight against 17,000 Norwegian troops and 45,000 British and Allied troops.

On 15 November, the Germans continued to send paratroopers and airborne troops to Narvik, bringing the strength of the defensive position to 10 battalions. The Germans in central Norway also advanced more than 300 kilometers north along the coast towards the city of Narvik, seized the ports of Moshauen and Makuichi, and advanced towards Hakado, and the British and Norwegian troops could not stop the SS steel torrent at all...... (To be continued.) )