The British War office announced that Allied forces were evacuated
from Namsos on
2
May 1940 without loss.
Allied troops advancing upon Narvik were counter attacked
on
1-
2
May 1940, but both attacks were repulsed with loss to German
forces.
Norwegian commander in Trondheim, sector, Colonel Getz, announced
in an order of the day that, as he had munitions for only
one more day, he had proposed an armistice.
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) heavily and successfully
bombed Danish airfield at Ry, north of Jutland. Stavanger
and Fornebu were also bombed.
British reconnaissance aircraft attacked near Borkum by three
Luftwaffe fighters, one of which was shot down.
Go To: 4th
May
Articles:
The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
ISBN-10: 086136614X
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