Ahead of the VE Day 80th anniversary, Astrid Larsen, the daughter of Leif Anders “Shetlands” Larsen, is travelling on a ...

It sounds like it could be the plot of a spy novel, but the 'Shetland Bus' was a real undercover operation carried out to ...

Without the Norwegian sailors who risked their lives in the war, the Allied front might have collapsed and thousands could ...

A CONVOY has set sail for Shetland to honour the merchant sailors and special forces during the Second World War.

The Liberation Convoy, which followed the journey made by the so-called “Shetland Bus” during the war, was greeted with a floating salute as it arrived in Lerwick on Tuesday night. The ...

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

The Liberation Convoy was partly made of historic vessels that once sailed the daring North Sea route during WWII ...

It sounds like it could be the plot of a spy novel, but the "Shetland Bus" was a real undercover operation carried out to help the resistance in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War Two.

Ahead of the VE Day 80th anniversary, Astrid Larsen, the daughter of Leif Anders “Shetlands” Larsen, is travelling on a “Shetland Bus” vessel between the two countries in a Liberation ...

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