April 1940
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- Operation Hurry, the first British wartime convoy to Malta is accomplished.
- 1: Sometime between April and early May, Polish officers are massacred by the USSR at Katyn.
- 3: The Ministerial Defence Committee, with the First Lord of the Admiralty (Winston Churchill) as its chair, replaces Normandy after Hitler's invasion of Poland;
- 9: Germans land in several Norwegian ports and take Oslo; The Norwegian Campaign lasts 2 months. The British begin their Norwegian Campaign. Denmark surrenders.
- 10: Germans set up a Norwegian government under Vidkun Quisling, former minister of defence.
- 11: First Battle of Narvik, British destroyers and aircraft successfully make a surprise attack against a larger German naval force. A second attack on April 13 will also be a British success.
- 12: British troops occupy the Danish Faroe Islands.
- 14: British and French troops begin landing at Namsos, north of Trondheim in Norway.
- 14: The Enigma code is deciphered by the intelligence group at Bletchley Park in England for the first time.
- 15: British troops land at Harstad, near Narvik, Norway.
- 16: More British landings in Norway, notably north and south of Trondheim; the struggle for Trondheim continues until the 22nd.
- 27: British troops begin pull-out from central Norway, north and south of Trondheim.
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