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Medal WW II General Dietl (Invasion of Norway)

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Medal WW II General Dietl (Invasion of Norway)

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Auction Date:2014 Apr 23 @ 20:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:2320 W Peoria Ave Suite A101, Phoenix, Arizona, 85029, United States
Medal WW II General Dietl (Invasion of Norway). German Dietl commanded the German 3rd Mountain Division that participated in the German invasion of Norway on April 9th and 10th, 1940. Most of this division was landed at Narvik by a German naval force of 10 destroyers, commanded by Commodore Friedrich Bonte, on April 9th, 1940. British naval forces led by the battleship HMS Warspite destroyed all ten destroyers that had ferried Dietl's troops to Narvik and managed to recapture the town. Dietl's mountaineers withdrew into the hills and later retook the town when Britain abandonedher efforts to evict the Germans from Norway due to German success on the Western Front (the Franco-German border, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands).