Battle of Fornebu
| Battle of Fornebu | |||||||
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| Part of the Norwegian Campaign in World War II | |||||||
Fornebu after the Luftwaffe had taken over the field | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Norway | Germany | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Erling Munthe-Dahl | Nikolaus von Falkenhorst | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 7 Gloster Gladiator fighter planes | 70–80 planes (first wave) | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1 plane shot down | 4 planes shot down | ||||||
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Notes: All the Norwegian planes eventually ran out of gas and landed. | |||||||
The Battle of Fornebu was an engagement that occurred on 9 April 1940 during Operation Weserübung when the Germans launched an assault on Oslo, the capital of Norway. Seven fighter planes from the vastly outnumbered Norwegian Army Air Service took to the skies to engage the German forces. The Norwegians shot down four German planes for the loss of one their own before the defenders were forced to land after their aircraft ran low on fuel.