Battle of Dombås

Battle of Dombås
	Part of the Norwegian campaign of the Second World War
	; German Junkers Ju 52 downed at Dombås
Date	14–19 April 1940
Location	Dombås area in Dovre, Gudbrandsdal, Norway62°00′30″N 9°13′42″E
Result	Norwegian victory German Fallschirmjäger company blocks the north–south and west–east rail and road systems for five days before surrendering;
Belligerents
Norway	Germany
Commanders and leaders
14–17 April:; Ivar Navelsaker; 17–19 April:; Arne Sunde	Herbert Schmidt (POW)
Strength
–17 April:; 2nd Battalion,; Infantry Regiment 11; No. 1 Company of; Infantry Regiment 5; 17–19 April:; 1st Battalion,; Infantry Regiment 11; No. 1 Company of; Infantry Regiment 5; •Machine gun platoon from NoAAS Jagevingen; 40 mm anti-aircraft gun; 19 April:; •Rail-mounted howitzer manned by Royal Marines	4 officers and 181 men of the 1st Company,; 1st Regiment of the; 7th Flieger Division
Casualties and losses
20 dead; 20 wounded	During the drop:; 15 dead,; 20 wounded; and 14 injured; 7 Junkers Ju 52s shot down,; an eighth Ju 52 landed in Sweden and sank through a frozen lake.; During the fighting:; 6 killed; 6 wounded; ~150 captured

The Battle of Dombås was fought between Norwegian Army infantry forces and German Fallschirmjäger paratroops in mid-April 1940. As part of their conquest of Norway south of Trondheim, and as a countermeasure against reported Allied landings in the Romsdal area of south-western Norway, the Germans dropped a company of paratroopers near the vital railroad junction of Dombås on 14 April 1940. For the next five days, the German force blocked the Dovre Line railroad line between Oslo and Trondheim, as well as the main road between the two cities.

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