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In February 1942, the boys of the Churchill Club devised a plan to raid the Fuchs Construction offices at Aalborg airport, an important Luftwaffe base housing 150 bombers used to attack targets in Norway and to protect German ships.
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- Hospital of The Holy Ghost, Aalborg
- Danish resistance movement
German military planners believed that a base in the northern part of Jutland, specifically the airfield of Aalborg, would be essential to operations in Norway, and they began planning the occupation of parts of Denmark.
Apr 7, 2012 · The Altmark incident on 16 Feb 1940, in which Norwegian gunboats stood by and allowed a British destroyer to board a German transport, however, changed the German viewpoint.
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11 planes (1.-11.) took part in the attack on Aalborg Airfield, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West, on 13 August, 1940. See Aalborg Air Base. All 11 planes were shot down in or leaving the target area. Follow the numbers 014-024 on the clickable map with planes to positions or see Google Map p014-024.
defense area Aalborg. Home - Denmark - next page. On 9 April 1940, at 06:30, German troops occupied the airport in Aalborg, built just two years earlier. For the first time in history, paratroops were used to spearhead an assault.
Seefliegerhorst Aalborg was a German seaplane base at Aalborg during the occupation of Denmark, 1940 to 1945. On 12 April 1940, three days after the German occupation of Denmark, the first German seaplanes landed on the Limfjord on the western outskirts of Aalborg.
Aalborg (See) (DK) (c. 57 03 20 N – 09 53 05 E) General: seaplane station (Seefliegerhorst) at Ålborg/N Denmark, 1.6 km W of the Aalborg railway bridge and directly opposite the SE tip of Egholm Island (Egholm By).
