Walking Narvik reveals a part of the battlefield that English-language summaries can obscure. Housing crowds the harbor, mountains rise close behind it, and opposing destroyers fought at very short ranges. A 4.7-inch shell could have passed through several wooden houses before reaching the mountainside. The 1940 action can therefore be understood partly as urban warfare conducted by ships in a confined harbor.
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Narvik harbor as an urban naval battlefield
Walking Narvik shows how destroyers fought at close range inside a harbor crowded by houses and mountains.