Namsos Campaign
{'<entity_0>': 'World War II', '<entity_1>': 'Namsos Campaign', '<entity_2>': '1940', '<entity_3>': '01 April 1940', '<entity_4>': 'Norway', '<entity_5>': '01 May 1940', '<entity_6>': 'Namsos'}
[['Namsos Campaign', 'location', 'Namsos'], ['Namsos Campaign', 'point in time', '1940'], ['Namsos Campaign', 'part of', 'World War II'], ['Namsos Campaign', 'end time', '01 May 1940'], ['Namsos Campaign', 'start time', '01 April 1940'], ['Namsos Campaign', 'location', 'Norway']]
The <entity_1>, in <entity_6>, <entity_4>, and its surrounding area involved heavy fighting between Anglo-French and <entity_4> naval and military forces on the one hand, and German military, naval and air forces on the other in April and early <entity_5>. When the <entity_0> broke out in September 1939, <entity_4> followed a policy of neutrality, as it had successfully done during the First World War, hoping to stay out of the war once again engulfing Europe. So <entity_4> was at peace in <entity_3> when it was suddenly attacked by naval, air and military forces from Nazi Germany. In <entity_2>, the <entity_4> armed forces were among the weakest in Europe. Because of the trade in lumber, by <entity_2> <entity_6> port was furnished with three good wharves (one of stone) with a depth alongside of 18 to 30 feet and lengths from 320 to 770 feet. Captain Frank Pegram of the cruiser HMS Glasgow, accompanied by the cruiser HMS Sheffield and ten destroyers, landed a small party of Royal Marines in <entity_6> on <entity_2>. Throughout his time at <entity_6>, he was left completely uninformed of what was happening elsewhere in <entity_4>. On <entity_5>, three British anti-submarine trawlers at the entrance to the Namsfjord, HMS Gaul, HMS St. Goran and HMS Aston Villa were destroyed by aircraft, the latter managing to make it back to <entity_6>, where she burned.
['military campaign']