The Shetland Bus (Norwegian Bokmål: Shetlandsbussene, def. pl.) was the nickname of a clandestine special operations group that made a permanent link between...
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The Shetland bus was the name given to a clandestine special operations group that made a permanent link between Shetland, Scotland, and German-occupied...
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Leif Larsen (redirect from Shetland Larsen)
known as "Shetlands Larsen", was a highly decorated Norwegian sailor. He was arguably the most famous of the men who operated the Shetland bus escape route...
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Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region...
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Shetland pony Shetland sheep Shetland Sheepdog Shetland, Ontario, Canada South Shetland Islands, a group of Antarctic islands Shetland Bus was the nickname...
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Shetland is a Scottish crime drama television series produced by ITV Studios for BBC Scotland. First broadcast on BBC One on 10 March 2013, it is originally...
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Northern Isles (redirect from Orkney & Shetland)
in 1957. During World War II, a Norwegian naval unit nicknamed the "Shetland Bus" was established by the Special Operations Executive in the autumn of...
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Scalloway (category Villages in Mainland, Shetland)
Shetland Bus: Faces and Places 60 Years on (Shetland Times Ltd) ISBN 978-1-898852-88-9 Smith, Willie (2003) Willie's War and Other Stories (Shetland Times...
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were usually called "englandsfarere" (people traveling to England). The Shetland bus played a vital part of the voyages to and from Norway but other small...
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The History of Shetland concerns the subarctic archipelago of Shetland in Scotland. The early history of the islands is dominated by the influence of...
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Lerwick (redirect from Lerwick, Shetland)
Leirvik; Norn: Larvik) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick had a population of about 7,000 residents...
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fishing boats from a base in the Shetland Islands. The service became so reliable that it became known as the Shetland Bus. One of its boats and crews launched...
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(SOE) and helped set up the Shetland Bus, an SOE operation manned by Norwegians running a clandestine route between Shetland and Norway. He was second in...
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was also responsible for establishing the so-called Shetland Bus, a regular link between the Shetland Islands and Norway, which, by the spring of 1942,...
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2018. "Paddling in the wake of the Shetland Bus". Shetland News. 14 July 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2018. "Shetland kayakers abandon voyage". BBC News...
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Unst Bus Shelter, also known as Bobby's Bus Shelter, is a bus shelter and bus stop near the village of Baltasound, on the isle of Unst, Shetland Islands...
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scheme with the highly experienced Shetland Bus captain Leif Larsen, who offered to command the attack. The Shetland Bus force's commanding officer Major...
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Viking Bus Station is a bus station in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland. The station is used both by passengers and for freight, which is transported by bus. While...
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Unst (redirect from Unst, Shetland)
Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles and is the third-largest island in Shetland after Mainland...
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Suicide Mission (film) (category History of Shetland)
book The Shetland Bus. The true story of the Shetland bus, the clandestine traffic across the North Sea from German-occupied Norway to Shetland during the...
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who as a central person in this traffic that became known as "Shetland-Larsen". Shetland bus Statistisk sentralbyrå (1 January 2019). "Urban settlements...
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involved in the Shetland bus operation during the Second World War. A 23-year-old male from Bømlo, Nils Nesse, was the first of the Shetland Bus men to be killed...
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Marines officer during World War II and served as commander of the "Shetland bus" between 1942 and 1945, a group that maintained a supply line and escape...
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Memorial at Akershus Fortress to the members of the Norwegian Independent Company 1 and the Shetland bus who were killed in World War II...
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Scalloway Museum (category Museums in Shetland)
Scalloway, Shetland. The museum has collections that cover the history of the Shetland Islands as well as historical subjects such as the Shetland bus operations...
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HNoMS Nordkapp (section Iceland and the Shetland Bus)
September 1943 when she was transferred to Shetland in order to support the Shetland bus operations. At Shetland she operated from 22 September 1943 together...
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Norway during the war, through Sweden or by fishing boats to Shetland, nicknamed the "Shetland bus". A number of saboteurs, most notably Max Manus and Gunnar...
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Lunna House (category Category B listed buildings in Shetland)
Shetland". In the 20th century it was used as a base of the wartime Shetland Bus operation. The house is protected as a category B listed building, and...
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Naval Independent Unit - which earned the nickname "Shetland bus" for its operations between Shetland and occupied Norway - was formed. Norway had at one...
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in the battle of the North Atlantic. Shetland's relative proximity to occupied Norway resulted in the Shetland Bus by which fishing boats helped Norwegians...
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