Battle of Fornebu
The Battle of Fornebu was an engagement that occurred on 9 April 1940 during Operation Weserübung when the Germans launched an assault on Oslo, the capital of Norway. Seven fighter planes from the vastly outnumbered Norwegian Army Air Service took to the skies to engage the German forces and managed to shoot down four planes against the loss of one before running out of fuel.
| Battle of Fornebu | |||||||
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| Part of the Norwegian Campaign in World War II | |||||||
Fornebu after the Luftwaffe had taken over the field | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Norway | Germany | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Erling Munthe-Dahl | Nikolaus von Falkenhorst | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 7 Gloster Gladiator fighter planes | 70-80 planes (first wave) | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1 plane shot down | 4 planes shot down | ||||||
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Notes: All the Norwegian planes eventually ran out of gas and landed. | |||||||
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