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Events on Saturday 8 June 1940 1
1940Battles of NarvikAllied and German forces fight over the iron-ore portGerman forces seized the northern Norwegian port of Narvik on 9 April. British, French, Polish and Norwegian troops retook the town in late May but withdrew in early June as the situation in France collapsed. The naval battles in the fjord cost Germany ten destroyers.