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...Alten Fjord. Finally, in September last year, came the night when three X-boats (known to the Royal Navy as "Tiddlers") cruised off into the North Sea, After a voyage of nearly 1,000 miles they reached the mouth of Norway's Alten Fjord...
Then they started a hazardous 60-mile run up the fjord, delicately slipping by every known form of trap, net and guard until they reached the inner anchorage...
...Sept. 22 British midget submarines in Norway's Alten Fjord rammed some torpedoes into Germany's greatest battleship, the 40,000-ton Tirpitz, left her floating in her own oil and out of commission for many months...
Late in September 1941 the Germans moved in, made an air base at Longyear City, from which they could harass Allied shipping to Murmansk. Six months later a Norwegian force returned. Eighty-two of them in an icebreaker and a fishing vessel crawled up Green Fjord, where they were sighted and attacked by German Condors. One ship was sunk, the other set afire. Survivors climbed out of the subfreezing water on to the ice and got ashore at Barentsburg, carrying their wounded, 15 skis, a few rifles and a single, broken lamp...
...skepticism notwithstanding, the principle of the Fleet in Being served the Germans well in World War I, and is powerfully at work against the U.S. as well as Britain in World War II. In this case the Fleet in Being is again a German fleet, gathered in a fjord near Trondheim, Norway. The mere threat of that fleet restricts the full use of perhaps four times its own strength in British and U.S. warships...