Summary: A tribute to the people of Norway, preparing for the offensive "on both sides of the North Sea" and to King Haakon VII (who was 70 in 1942) as the symbol of that people.
Description: Opening shots of Norway House, Norwegian forces personnel in London and King Haakon at a cabinet meeting of his Government in Exile; film then looks back over Haakon's reign: 1905 Coronation parade shots, and film of Norwegian countryside, the Royal Family, winter sporting, markets, fisheries; all illustrating the peaceful first 35 years of his reign before the German invasion of 1940 (burning houses, etc). Norwegians in exile: servicemen training (sailors, commandos and airmen); an army camp's Christmas celebrations; Haakon broadcasts to his people. A staged sequence (radio, clandestine newssheets etc) reminds audience of resistance activities in Norway; Haakon launches a ship named after him.
