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Shortly after 9am on April 8th 1940, the British destroyer HMS Glowworm rammed the 18,000 ton German Heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. It was the climax of a running battle that developed after a single British destroyer inadvertently stumbled into the middle of a full scale German invasion of Norway. This is the story of a fight to the end against overwhelming odds, and a tale of gallantry that was only recognised in the most extraordinary of circumstances.

0:00 Norway 1940
2:19 Wondrium
3:35 The German Fleet Comes Out
5:29 Glowworm Engages the Destroyers
7:28 Admiral Hipper Enters the Fray
8:05 Glowworm's Last Stand

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Sources:

Geirr Haar, The German Invasion of Norway: April 1940

IWM Oral History interview with Albert Noel Harris, stoker onboard HMS Glowworm https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...

IWM Oral History interview with Fred Smith https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...



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