![]() ![]() ![]() Some stretched two thousand miles in length and lasted as long as three weeks in boats only fifty to seventy-five feet long. Nothing but war would have made seamen attempt such dangerous journeys. In The Shetland Bus, David Howarth, who was second in command of the Shetland base, recounts the hundreds of trips made by fishing boats in the dark of Arctic winter to resist the Nazi onslaught.įor the Norwegians who remained in Norway, The Shetland Bus fortified them both physically and spiritually. After the Germans invaded Norway, many Norwegians knew that small boats were constantly sailing from the Shetland Islands to land weapons, supplies, and agents and to rescue refugees. The occupation of Western Europe and Scandinavia in the spring of 1940 crippled Britain's ability to gather intelligence information. A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Adventure. ![]()
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