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09-08-2009, 02:14 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| Good question....why was then plans made anyway? 
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09-08-2009, 02:21 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey..The Garden State!
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 | Maybe since the German blockade of the North Sea severely hurt trade and every shipment out of Sweden had to be negotiated with British and German Authorities, German thought that Sweden was becoming of less importance, just a thought......  |
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09-08-2009, 02:25 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Helsinki
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| Plans were made because Hitler wanted time to time occupy Sweden, IIRC trice. The first time was in spring 42. Then Sweden had most of the Italian planes, which Lucky mentioned in message #6, in service as well most of the Douglas 8A-1s built in license in Sweden They also had got more tanks, the 1st Tank battalion had got its 16th and last Strv m/38 and they had formed a new tank battalion , the 2nd which had 84 Strv m/40Ls Juha |
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09-08-2009, 02:27 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Helsinki
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| Hello B-17 Sweden was very important to Germany and especially to Hitler because of Kiiruna iron ore pits and because of its ball bearing industry. Juha |
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09-08-2009, 02:43 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey..The Garden State!
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| Oh, okay, I was just reading about it in a book I have recently read, now I'm forgetting  and I would think it would get frustrating for my trade to be regulated, so to speak, by Britain and having a blockade. Thanks for the information though!! |
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09-08-2009, 03:42 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Helsinki
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| BTW Swedes knew how to built fortresses, the photo is on a fortress built at the beginning of 20th century to protect Sweden and especially the mines of Kiiruna area from attacks from East. The fortress is one of 5 which protected garrison town Boden Juha Last edited by Juha; 09-08-2009 at 03:50 PM. Reason: correcting a couple typos |
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09-08-2009, 05:05 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: London UK
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| BOAC used to fly civilian registered Mosquitos to Sweden. Nice art here. AVIATION ART HANGAR - BOAC's Stockholm Express by Ronald Wong (Mosquito)
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