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The North Atlantic Front: Orkney, Shetland, Faroe and Iceland at War (2004) Nissen, Henrik S., ed. Scandinavia during the Second World War (Universitetsforlaget, 1983) Petrow, Richard. The Bitter Years; The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940-May 1945 (1974) Riste, Olav et al. Norway and the Second World War (1996)
May 1945 faster ships (UGF 1 was the Operation Torch invasion convoy) UGS Chesapeake Bay to Gibraltar (later Port Said) November 1942 May 1945 slower ships VC Malta to Tobruk: VN Augusta, Sicily or Malta to Naples (OR) Naples to Livorno: VT Malta to Tripoli: WX western desert ports to Alexandria: XIF Alexandria and Port Said to Taranto and ...
When Norway was invaded by Germany on 9 April 1940, the merchant fleet had been at war for seven months. Norway was neutral, but lost 58 ships and around 400 sailors. During these months much of the framework that Nortraship was to operate within was created; most importantly the Norwegian-British tonnage agreement.
The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
6 July – Norway declares war on Japan. 25 July – Gerhardsen's First Cabinet was appointed. 17 August – Reidar Haaland was executed. 4 September – The Third Reich's last active troops surrender after seal hunters discover them on Bear Island. [3] 8 October – The 1945 Parliamentary election takes place.
Ten ships and 1,000 men from the Royal Norwegian Navy participated in the Normandy Invasion in 1944. During the war the navy operated 118 ships, at the end of the war it had 58 ships and 7,500 men in service. They lost 27 ships, 18 fishing boats (of the Shetland bus) and 933 men in World War II. [8] The navy had its own air force from 1912 to 1944.
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Two ships, MV Dicto and SS Lionel returned to Gothenburg. [12] [13] The total number of crew on the ten involved ships was 471. Of these 19 perished during the escape operation, 124 reached the British islands. [1] and the 85 persons from Dicto and Lionel returned to Sweden. More than 200 from the ships were captured by the Germans.