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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 .
British and German naval movements off Norway between 7 and 9 April 1940. Whitworth's force consisted of the battlecruiser Renown and the nine remaining destroyers.HMS Hotspur, Hardy, Havock, and Hunter were H-class destroyers, HMS Esk was an E-class destroyer and HMS Ivanhoe, Icarus and Impulsive were of the I class.
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).
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.
In 1996, the Lofoten War Memorial Museum in Svolvær was opened, [4] an institution that William Hakvaag initiated and founded. [3] The museum displays Hakvaag's extensive private collection of military and civilian items from World War II in Norway, including 140 uniforms. [5] In 2010, the war museum became part of the Museum Nord.
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.
Operation Claymore: British Commandos conducted a raid on the Nazi-occupied Lofoten Islands in Norway. They achieved their objective of destroying fish oil factories and some 3,600 tons of oil and glycerine, and also captured German code information.
Legacy of the Aldenata series [9] Posleen War - Central Storyline A Hymn Before Battle (2000) Gust Front (2001) When the Devil Dances (2002) Hell's Faire (2003) Hedren War Eye of the Storm (2009) Posleen War Sidestories Watch on the Rhine (2005) Yellow Eyes (2007) The Tuloriad (2009) (with Tom Kratman) Cally's War Spinoff Series Cally's War (2004)