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1940 in Norway

  • Operation WilfredSwedish iron ore flowed through the Gulf of Bothnia to Luleå during the summer months. Winter ice closed this route by December 1939.
  • Operation WeserübungBy the spring of 1939, the British Admiralty began to view Scandinavia as a potential theatre of war in a future conflict with Nazi Germany.