| One of the reason we could not hold the area was lack of Air cover, the only fighter air cover was from the Gladiator aircraft which was a Bi plane and was already out of date. They tried operating from frozen lakes but the Germans just bombed the lakes and the planes sunk into the lakes. Now we had very little artillery out there and no armour. With allied force of under 30.000 men who where poorly equipped, yet expected by some here to through back a well armed force ten times it's size. Still there was strong and heavy Commando raids along the the Norwegian coast that tied down some 333.000 German soldiers right up to the end of the war.
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