While the boats were actually in Norwegian coastal waters they were fairly safe because each looked just like the hundreds of other legitimate fishing boats. An excellent website commemorates their achievements and failures. The boats carried spies, radios, munitions and supplies to the Norwegian Resistance and brought out refugees and Norwegians whom the Gestapo was after. During WWII Howarth was in the British navy and helped operate what was called “The Shetland Bus.” That was the name the Norwegians gave the small fleet of Norwegian fishing boats that the British operated from the Shetland Islands during WWII. He wrote an excellent history of Trafalgar, another of Waterloo and many others. He was British and predominantly a military historian. I re-read last week The Shetland Bus, a book by David Howarth, one of my favorite non- fiction writers.
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