Events
- 5 February - The Norwegian submarine HNoMS Uredd is destroyed by a German minefield. The 39 men aboard as well as six Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents are killed in the sinking. The wreck of the submarine was only discovered in 1985.
- 22 February - The collaborationist Quisling regime approves the Lov om nasjonal arbeidsinnsats (English: Law of national work effort) according to which all men between ages 18–55 and all women between ages 21–40, are required to enlist.
- 24 February - 158 Norwegian Jews are deported from Norway to German extermination camps.
- 28 February - Operation Gunnerside: Six Norwegian SOE agents led by Joachim Rønneberg successfully attack the heavy water plant at Vemork.
- 24 July - An allied air raid completely destroys the aluminium and magnesium plants in Herøya being built by Norsk Hydro in cooperation with Luftwaffe-operated Nordische Aluminium Aktiengesellschaft (Nordag). 55 construction workers are killed.
- 28 July - MTB 345, a motor torpedo boat operated by the exiled Royal Norwegian Navy, is captured by the Germans off Western Norway. The seven-man Norwegian-British crew was executed in Bergen two days later based on Adolf Hitler's Commando Order
- 21 September - Operation Source: British midget submarines attack the German battleship Tirpitz, at anchor in the Kåfjord, crippling her for six months.
- 30 September - the sinking of the Hurtigruten passenger ship Sanct Svithun by Allied aircraft leads to heavy protests from the Norwegian resistance movement.
- 16 November - 160 American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in Vemork, Norway.
- 26 December – the German battleship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
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A reconstruction of the Operation Gunnerside team planting explosives to destroy the cascade of electrolysis chambers.
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Sanct Svithun beached and sinking after the 30 September attack.
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160 American bombers bombed this hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork on 16 November.
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