From 1940 to 1945, steady traffic across the North Sea from the Shetland Islands to the west coast of Norway evacuated civilians and brought in agents, weapons, arms and intelligence. 

Author J.L. Oakley joins the podcast again to describe this under-appreciated part of World War 2.

Map: The Shetland Bus route

Links

Books

The Scalloway Museum

Historical photos: See the web page for this episode. 

The Scalloway Museum, Shetland Is. 

Shetland Bus exhibit in the Scalloway Museum

Typical Norwegian fishing boat in the Shetland Bus system.

Bill Moore of the Scalloway Museum (left) with model of boat and modeler Tron Hvilding.

Lunna House, Shetland 

Bomlo Is. and Shetland Is.

Bliya monument

Submarine chaser Vigra, 1943

Wreck of the Hitra

Hitra restored

Lief "Shetlands" Larsen 

Below: Norwegian liberation day

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