The Shetland Buses played a critical yet little known role in helping liberate Norway from German occupation during the Second World War.

The Shetland Bus convoys were part of the Norwegian branch of the SOE, supporting the resistance movement in Norway. Between 1940 and 1945, they made 200 North Sea crossings, transporting hundreds of ...

It was the first enemy warship seized on the high seas by the US Navy since the War of 1812. It was a remarkable coup, not ...