| Tittel: | Churchill on Narvik |
| Ansvar: | Piers Mackesy |
| Forfatter: | Mackesy, Piers  |
| Materialtype: | Artikkel |
| Signatur: | Digital PDF |
| Utgitt: | United Kingdom, London : Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, 1970 |
| Omfang: | 6 - Illustrert |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0035-9289 |
| Klassenummer: | 940.53 |
| Serie: | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution ; Volume 115 |
| Emneord: | 2. verdenskrig / Andre verdenskrig / Det britiske felttog / Felttog / Krig / Militærhistorie / Militærvesen |
| Personer som emne: | Pierse Joseph Mackesy |
| Geografiske emneord: | England / Narvik / Norge |
| Note: | Artikkelen ligger kun som nedlastbar PDF på høyre side. |
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ON 14th April 1940 the cruiser Southampton was racing through the northern seas towards the little Arctic port of Harstad in. the Lofoten Islands. On board was the advance party of a military force whose mission was to eject the Germans who had seized Narvik five days earlier. Its commander was my father, Pat Mackesy;. and the contentious story of his operations was made public eight years later in the first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's war memoirs. Churchill's theme was that Mackesy· should have taken Narvik in the first days by an amphibious coup de main; and that as a result of his failure to make the assault, a small German force held the allies at bay for six weeks and robbed them of a much needed moral and political success
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| Eier: | Norsk Luftfartsmuseum |
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