ABSTRACT
German invasion were being concerted as rapidly as possible by the Allied Governments. ‘ Completely outwitted 71 and forestalled as they were, their plans were necessarily improvisations ; events proved that they were under taken on a totally inadequate scale. The troops and ships earmarked for the discarded plan R.4 were at any rate available, but since the organisation and equipment of the troops had been designed for unopposed landings and the Germans were already in possession of the principal ports, new landing places had to be chosen ; as already mentioned, the first convoy sailed from the Clyde two days after the German landings, with the Narvik area as its destination.
