Word: commandos
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...British made a decision which was dictated by necessity; to yield almost all Malaya, saving the Australians for a compact shield of men just north of Singapore. This would stretch Japanese communications through hundreds of miles of Commando-infested jungle, shorten British communications and coastline to the defensible limits of the troops in hand...
Britain's Commando raids may have been undertaken partly as morale builders, but Haakon VII's German-hating subjects seem sold on the theory that Commando forays are preludes to an Allied invasion of Europe. Norse cooperation with the raiding parties is so flagrant that homes of persons identified with these invading shock troops are burned, their male relatives arrested...
German occupation authorities recently made wholesale arrests of former Norse military men, fumed impotently over knowledge that the best military brains were already in London with the Free Government-in-Exile, there to plot further Commando raids. In Stavanger eleven Norwegians were executed, including Carl Oftedal, a doctor,Thomas Fjermestad, a bookkeeper, Georg Fjellberg, a smith. Said Free Norway's crack little U.S. news service, which has uncannily accurate underground contacts with the homeland: "[The charges are] believed to be espionage and sabotage...
There nine quislings were collared. In Commando-weary Vidkun Quisling's official newspaper there later appeared an angry complaint: other Norwegians had painted signs on the quislings' homes to identify them for the Commandos...
...Exile. Those remaining behind prepared stolidly for the reprisals sure to come-in their zeal to assist the visitors, the residents of one village had cut a German telegraph line in 35 places, had committed other appropriate forms of sabotage. Spreading throughout Norway was a growing conviction that Commando raids presage a mass British attempt to wrest from German hands the naval fortress of Narvik, and ultimately the whole of Norway...