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| rdfs:comment | - The Battle of Dombås was fought between Norwegian Army infantry forces and German Fallschirmjäger paratroops in mid-April 1940. As part of their conquest of Norway south of Trondheim, and as a countermeasure against reported allied landings in the Romsdal area of south western Norway, the Germans dropped a company of paratroopers near the vital railroad junction of Dombås on 14 April 1940. For the next five days, the German force blocked the Dovre Line railroad line between Oslo and Trondheim, as well as the main road between the two cities.
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| Strength | - 1
- 7
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- --04-19
- Infantry Regiment 11
- Infantry Regiment 5
- •1st Battalion,
- •2nd Battalion,
- •4 officers and 181 men of the 1st Company,
- •40 mm anti-aircraft gun
- •Machine gun platoon from NoAAS Jagevingen
- •No. 1 Company of
- •Rail mounted howitzer manned by Royal Marines
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| Partof | - the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War
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| Caption | - German Junkers Ju 52 downed at Dombås.
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| Casualties | - 6
- 15
- 20
- 52.0
- During the drop:
- During the fighting:
- and 14 injured.
- ca. 150 captured
- an eighth Ju 52 landed in Sweden and sank through a frozen lake.
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| Result | - Norwegian tactical victory, although the German Fallschirmjäger company blocked the north-south and west-east rail and road systems for five days before surrendering
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| Place | - Dombås area in Dovre, Gudbrandsdal, Norway
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| abstract | - The Battle of Dombås was fought between Norwegian Army infantry forces and German Fallschirmjäger paratroops in mid-April 1940. As part of their conquest of Norway south of Trondheim, and as a countermeasure against reported allied landings in the Romsdal area of south western Norway, the Germans dropped a company of paratroopers near the vital railroad junction of Dombås on 14 April 1940. For the next five days, the German force blocked the Dovre Line railroad line between Oslo and Trondheim, as well as the main road between the two cities.
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