Enig og tro til Dovre faller – A Norwegian AAR

[Draco Rexus]

KuzuX, Ken was correct and nice and polite when he told that if you didn't like the AAR, not to read it... I however, am not one known for being all warm and fuzzy, nor nice and polite, so I'm gonna say it this way: Shut up, sit down, and enjoy the story or take a flying leap through a rolling tire going down a broken glass and gravel roadway with no freaking clothes on, ya got it, RECRUIT!?!?

[kenneththegreat]

KuzuX, Ken was correct and nice and polite when he told that if you didn't like the AAR, not to read it... I however, am not one known for being all warm and fuzzy, nor nice and polite, so I'm gonna say it this way: Shut up, sit down, and enjoy the story or take a flying leap through a rolling tire going down a broken glass and gravel roadway with no freaking clothes on, ya got it, RECRUIT!?!?

Draco and Rafiki, thanks a lot. That should make him more polite

BTW, Draco, i am now one post ahead of you

[GhostWriter]

this is the most boring aar i've ever read
bored........zzzzzzz.............

if you are trying to boost yer post count, may i suggest that you post something positive? we really are a friendly bunch here, just give us a try! ! !

[Lord E]

Oranje Verzet Indeed Rommel is one cunning fox. Well I am certain the NEF and the BEF will do their best to defend France, although the French did little to defend them


J. Passepartout Yes, Belgium is lost, but their is still hope for France



Ladislav So far it has been a pretty good fight. As for the French front, well as my next update will show at least for some time we have a pretty stable front, and we push the Germans back. I am certain the Norwegians will do their best to make that happen .



2Coats Thanks you very much. Glad you like the story


kenneththegreat Thanks for telling KuzuX how to behave and for informing the man that though it was arbeiderpartei that it isn’t written like that in Norwegian. Always nice to see you around


L Torstensson We shall fight in France, but I will certainly make sure not to lose any divisions because of it. I will do my very best, thanks


lifeless Thanks, I hope so to


Draco Rexus yes the British and the Norwegians did better than the French and Belgians and I am certain Winston will give the frogs a lesion on how to wage a successful war
Also thank you very much for telling KuzuX how to behave, I am certain your way of telling it should work. Thanks



GhostWriter Time will show at what cost. Glad you liked the update.



ScouseJedi Yeah, it seems like he has some way of trying to get a bigger post count by posting stupid comments…


To all First of all I would like to thank everyone for reading and posting, and then I would like to say once again thanks to all of you that told KuzuX how to behave. I am certain Draco’s words should teach him not to behave like that again.
Now as for better things. I got a new update coming up, this time we see how June ends as the Allies do their best to defend France from the Germans.

[Lord E]

The Western Front

The Battle of France, 20th -30th of June 1940


As the Allied Armies retreated from Belgium other Allied Armies had just managed to re-conquer Vincennes from the Germans, and now the front seemed stable along the French border. The Germans stood in Belgium and in Germany while the Allies controlled France. In Paris the press wrote about the strategic retreat from Brussels, it was said that the French Army had thought it necessary to retreat from Belgium as to defend France better, in the Belgian, Norwegian and British Staffs they knew the situation was very different. The French Army had suffered a great defeat in Belgium and this had cause the other Allies to lose as well, and therefore the Allied Armies now stood in France. Although knowing the French hadn’t given all to defend them, the other Allied commanders and the Allied soldiers were determined to defend France as long as possible. So as they arrive back in France the soldiers immediately started digging in.

Norwegian soldiers digging in and placing machine guns in their trenches

The work on the trenches was continued all through the 21st and 22nd of June. The BEF and the NEF had taken up positions in the area around Dunkirk, and finding their old trenches in pretty good shape there was little work needed. In the French and Belgian sectors of the front more work was needed and therefore the work took several days to get the trenches ready, but on the 22nd of June the first set of trenches was ready and the front should be easier to defend against the Germans. But around noon on the 22nd of June the Germans had prepared and rested since their attack on Ghent and in a well co-ordinated attack the panzers, motorized infantry and infantry rushed forward, not against Dunkirk, but against Lille. The Germans had discovered the weakest point in the Allied defences, the trenches just north of Lille.

The Western Front on the 22nd of June

Seeing the danger of this attack Prime Minister Churchill decided, without consulting the French Government he had lost all faith in the French Government after their terrible decisions in Belgium, to send the BEF forward to aid the defenders in Lille and he asked the Norwegian Prime Minster Nygaardsvold if he would allow for the NEF to march with the BEF. The Norwegian Government agreed to Churchill’s request and in the evening of the 22nd of June the BEF and the NEF left their trenches around Dunkirk and march against Lille.


The British and Norwegian armies march quickly during the night and in the early morning of the 23rd of June they had reached the frontlines. The Germans had pushed through the French/Belgian defences during the night, but now the British and Norwegian soldiers attack them in the flank. The Germans were tired after long and hard fighting, while the British and Norwegians had high morale and spirits. Rushing forward they managed to take the Germans by surprise and by nightfall on the 23rd of June the Germans had retreated from Lille.

The Allies had won the Battle of Lille, but much of the Belgian and French divisions that had originally defended Lille had retreated during the battle, and now the frontline around Lille was very weak. This caused the French High Command to decide to withdraw units from Dunkirk to defend Lille.

British soldiers resting after having pushed the Germans back from Lille

The stress of frontline work was having a great impact on the Allied soldiers and as the Germans launched an assault on the few remaining units in Dunkirk on the 25th of June the French units left behind was quickly pushed back. Most the units had been ordered away from Dunkirk to defend Lille and therefore the battle was very quick and one-sided. The German panzers rushed forward and captured Dunkirk during the 25th and 26th of June. Lord Gort and Lieutenant General Steffens saw this as a danger to their position. Knowing that they were dependant on the support from the sea and from the Royal Navy and the Norwegian Navy, they decided the Germans in command of Dunkirk were a great threat to their supply lines. Although Calais, where most of the British and Norwegian supplies were shipped through, was still in Allied hands, the presence of German units in the area was seen as a great danger to the BEF and the NEF.

The Western Front on the 26th of June 1940

Understanding the danger of having German units on their west flank even the French High Command decided that it was impossible to allow for the Germans to stay in Dunkirk. Therefore a large scale operation was planned against the German units in Dunkirk. The area was to be re-taken whatever the cost.

On the early hours of the 28th of June the Allied attack began. Both from land and from the sea a barrage was fired against the German lines and then the Allied soldiers moved forward.

When the barraged lifted the Allied soldiers moved forward

The soldiers rushed forward finding the German frontline trenches without an efficient defence. The artillery had forced the Germans back to take cover and many German soldiers were taken prisoner. Some of them were so disorientated from the artillery that they didn’t even know where they were. All in all 18 Allied divisions were committed against 13 German and Hungary divisions. The Hungarians were the first to break, having never been subjected to an artillery barrage before the Hungarian soldiers wasn’t aware off the danger of the artillery and many of them were killed or injured by the artillery. The surviving Hungarians had no morale for fighting and they started running away the moment they saw the Allied soldiers advancing.

The battle was a very one-sided affair, after the first artillery barrage had taken many German and Hungarians by surprise and forced the Hungarians to retreat, a huge opening in the lines were left undefended and the Allied soldiers rushed forward. Many German units were taken prisoners when they found themselves surrounded; other managed to retreat just before the Allies managed to surround them.


On the evening of the 29th of June the Germans and the Hungarians had been defeat in Dunkirk and forced back into Belgium. The Norwegian and British soldiers once again occupied their trenches around Dunkirk. As June ended the front was stable, the Germans had suffered some defeats in the end of the month, while the Allies had suffered defeats in the early part of the month. As July approached both sides started to dig in once again, improving their trenches. Some of the soldiers started thinking that they had to stay in the trenches for a long time, and therefore it was best to make sure the trenches were easy to defend. The High Commands on both sides still didn’t want to admit that this war was going to be a trench war as well, so as June ended the Generals on both sides were planning the July Offensives.

[Nuclear Winter]

Most interesting updates so far, Lord E!
Let's hope that the coordinated British/Norwegian effort manages to hold the tide of German advance for some more time!

Keep it up man! :b:

[kenneththegreat]

Jeez, they're using '39 divisions in Norway while leaving '18 divisions to go out and die in France

[lifeless]

great update! the front is now stable so that is good. what is in your production line?

[Earth's Savior]

It doesn't seem to look good for the Allies.

[Spitfire_Pilot]

nope and i expect france to fall soon and Germany may turn its attention back to Norway which wouldnt be good.

[hurricanehunter]

I expect the 1918 divisions are Hungarian.

[prussiablue]

Just got back Lord E. Who cares about the French when the Norwegians are doing well. I say the Allied High Command should take the offensive from now on (led by the Brits and Norwegian, of course).

[J. Passepartout]

I was going to advise you to retake Dunkirk, but then you did.

It is a very good thing that the Hungarians had so little experience.

[GhostWriter]

...The High Commands on both sides still didn’t want to admit that this war was going to be a trench war as well, so as June ended the Generals on both sides were planning the July Offensives.

and so the losses escalate! ! ! !

well, you stabilized the line, (at least for a while...)

[Draco Rexus]

I dearly hope that this doesn't turn into a repeat of the static lines of that little war of a few years ago!


Nice work, Lord E, nice work indeed!

[Allenby]

I dearly hope that this doesn't turn into a repeat of the static lines of that little war of a few years ago!

That is much more preferable to France being completely overrun, surely?

[GhostWriter]

I dearly hope that this doesn't turn into a repeat of the static lines of that little war of a few years ago!

That is much more preferable to France being completely overrun, surely?

well put! (my thought, exactly!)

[Draco Rexus]

Mayhap Allenby. However on the other hand, I'd rather see France overrun with Germans and have them liberated in a few years than have millions of Norwegian and Brits wasted in trench warfare, know what I mean?

Guess that's the lover of mobility in me, eh?

[Oranje Verzet]

Mayhap Allenby. However on the other hand, I'd rather see France overrun with Germans and have them liberated in a few years than have millions of Norwegian and Brits wasted in trench warfare, know what I mean?

Guess that's the lover of mobility in me, eh?

And the lover of humanity, depends on ur look at the military. Are u an officer or a soldier? My respect goes to the soldier, but the wisdom goes to the officer making judgement calls. etc.

bout that time for an update E-man

[Allenby]

Mayhap Allenby. However on the other hand, I'd rather see France overrun with Germans and have them liberated in a few years than have millions of Norwegian and Brits wasted in trench warfare, know what I mean?

Guess that's the lover of mobility in me, eh?

I am not sure that the French would agree with you - I reckon that they would much prefer another Verdun to an Oradour-sur-Glane... and I doubt that the Norwegians have millions in manpower available to have killed in such circumstances.

Of course, it is rather unlikely that trench warfare would develop anyway, given the presence of weaponry that promotes rapidity of movement rather than static defence - the tank and motorised infantry, for example.