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Åndalsnes landings
The Åndalsnes landings took place in Åndalsnes in Romsdal, Norway in 1940 during the Norwegian Campaign of World War II when, after the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, British troops landed in Åndalsnes as part of a pincer movement to take mid-Norwegian city Trondheim. The northern arm of the attack was based in Namsos.
Prelude.
Before the British operation had even begun it encountered a myriad of issues. The commanders for both the landing at Namsos and at Åndalsnes were replaced multiple times and
was when she took on board the British General Bernard Paget from the cruiser and brought him ashore at Åndalsnes on 24 April.
As her job included defending the Allied landings in southern Norway and the city of Molde "Sleipner" was a prime target for the "Luftwaffe"'s bombers.
Attacked by bombers in Romsdalsfjord on 20 April, "Sleipner" shot one German bomber down, which crashed into the sea near the island Sekken, and damaged several others with her Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun. Two