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This is a list of Norwegian military equipment of World War II. This list will mainly focus on the equipment of the Norwegian army during the Norwegian campaign or World War II invasion of Norway by Nazi Germany. For Norwegian resistance or other Norwegian forces after the German occupation of Norway please put them under different headers to ...
Krag–Jørgensen M1894 [2] Krag-Petersson reserves. Kammerlader M1860/67 reserves. Jarmann M1884 reserves. Remington M1867 reserves. Mauser Karabiner 98k Norwegian resistance. Lee-Enfield Norwegian resistance. M1 Carbine Norwegian resistance. M1917 Enfield Norwegian resistance.
The Army is the oldest of the Norwegian service branches, established as a modern military organization under the command of the King of Norway in 1628. The Army participated in various continental wars during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries as well, both in Norway and abroad, especially in World War II (1939–1945).
The Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) was established by a royal decree on 1 November 1944, thereby merging the Army and Navy air forces. No. 331 (Norwegian) Squadron defended London from 1941 and was the highest scoring fighter squadron in South England during the war.
In the late 1930s, the German war machine was dependent on large amounts of high quality Swedish iron ore that were shipped through the Norwegian port of Narvik.In early 1940, while German and Anglo-French forces watched each other across the French border during the "Phony War" period of World War II, the English and French governments began to draw up plans to send aid to Finland, which was ...
German infantry weapons in the Askifou War Museum, Crete. Lists of World War II military equipment are lists of military equipment in use during World War II (1939–1945). They include lists of aircraft, ships, vehicles, weapons, personal equipment, uniforms, and other equipment. There are aggregated military equipment lists by country, and ...
The Royal Norwegian Navy(Norwegian: Sjøforsvaret, lit. 'Sea defence') is the branch of the Norwegian Armed Forcesresponsible for navaloperations of Norway, including those of the Norwegian Coast Guard. As of 2008[update], the Royal Norwegian Navy consists of approximately 3,700 personnel (9,450 in mobilized state, 32,000 when fully mobilized ...
Ukrainian. v. t. e. The Norwegian resistance (Norwegian: Motstandsbevegelsen) to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945. It took several forms: Asserting the legitimacy of the exiled government, and by implication the lack of legitimacy of Vidkun Quisling 's pro-Nazi regime and Josef ...