The ‘Shetland Bus’.

Members of the ‘Shetland Bus’ during WW2.
The nickname of a Norwegian clandestine special operations group that linked the Shetland’s in Scotland to German-occupied Norway from 1941. From mid-1941 the group’s official name was the Norwegian Naval Independent Unit (NNIU). Initially they used covert fishing vessels to support resistance and in October 1943 it became part of the Royal Norwegian Naval Special Unit (RNNASU).

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Alan Malcher