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The Lofoten Islands were an important centre for the production of fish oil and glycerine, used in the German war economy. The landings were carried out on 4 March 1941, by 500 men of No. 3 Commando , No. 4 Commando , and a Royal Engineers section, and 52 men from Norwegian Independent Company 1 .
No. 4 Commando was a battalion-sized Commando unit of the British Army during the Second World War formed in 1940. Although it was intended to conduct small-scale raids and harass enemy garrisons along the coast of German-occupied France , the unit was mainly employed as a highly trained infantry assault unit.
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on cs.wikipedia.org Operace Claymore; Usage on fi.wikipedia.org Lofootit; Usage on he.wikipedia.org
Operation Anklet was the codename given to a British Commando raid during the Second World War.The raid on the Lofoten Islands was carried out in December 1941, by 300 men from No. 12 Commando and the Norwegian Independent Company 1.
An insightful meditation on courage, character, and women gone to war, Kristin Hannah’s novel introduces idealistic army nurse Frances “Frankie” McGrath as she volunteers in Vietnam, circa 1965.
The Lofoten War Memorial Museum (Norwegian: Lofoten Krigsminnemuseum) is a World War II museum located in Svolvær, Norway. [2] [3] It focuses on providing informative content about the Second World War, with a particular emphasis on events that took place in the Lofoten area and Northern Norway during the German occupation of Norway (1940–1945).
Battlefront Miniatures Ltd. – publisher of Flames of War (FoW), a World War II wargame. Battlefront.com - publisher of Combat Mission series of games; Battleline Publications – founded in 1973 and bought by Heritage Models around 1980. They were the original publisher of several Avalon Hill games, such as Wooden Ships and Iron Men, and ...
She mounted a main battery of six 42-calibre 15-inch guns with improved shells and greater range and a dual-purpose secondary battery consisting of twenty 4.5-inch (QF 4.5 inch L/45) guns arranged in ten turrets. The four I and E-class destroyers had been rigged for mine laying and most of their normal armament had been removed; they only had ...