apr 8, 1940 - Operation Wilfred and Plan R 4: British
naval operation that involved the mining
of the channel between Norway and her
offshore islands
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Operation Wilfred was a British naval operation during the Second World War that involved the mining of the channel between Norway and her offshore islands in order to prevent the transport of Swedish iron ore through neutral Norwegian waters to be used to sustain the German war effort. The Allies assumed that Wilfred would provoke a German response in Norway and prepared a separate operation known as Plan R 4 to occupy Narvik and other important locations.
On 8 April 1940, the operation was partly carried out, but was overtaken by events as a result of the following day′s German invasion of Norway and Denmark (Operation Weserübung), which began the Norwegian Campaign.
Plan R 4 was the World War II British plan for an invasion of the neutral state of Norway in April 1940. Earlier the British had planned a similar intervention with France during the Winter War.
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