Original sentence: This remained the situation as 1944 slipped into 1945, the new year would see the Norwegian forces slowly taking back their battered Northernmost province, helping the local population in the bitter arctic winter and dealing with occasional German raids from the air, sea and land as well as the ever present danger from mines
Edited sentence: The new year would see the Norwegian forces slowly taking back a battered Finnmark, helping the local population in the bitter arctic winter and dealing with occasional German raids from the air, sea and land as well as the ever present danger from mines.This remained the situation as 1944 slipped into 1945