Word: fjorded
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Sometimes the fog sweeps in from Narsarssuak Fjord, drowning the Quonset huts of the U.S. airport under a grey sea. Sometimes winds from the towering snow-mantled peaks moan across the glacial delta on which the airstrip is built, setting G.I.nerves on edge. In the pale, brief sunlight and long gloom of Greenland's winter, it does not take much to give a G.I. "cabin fever"- a disease which becomes acute when the mail is late...
...drove an open car on an exploring trip past Puget Sound inlets, where white salmon trollers and log booms lay moored. Lounging at the wheel, he followed the blue salt water of Hood Canal which lies, fjord-like, in the shadow of steep Olympic Mountain foothills...
...Arrested two months later by Puppet Dictator Vidkun Quisling, he has ever since been confined by barbed wire to an area 500 meters long by 200 wide. For company he has only the pines, a far-off view of the icy blue waters of Oslo Fjord, and the dozen Hirdmen (quisling Storm Troopers) who guard...
First the Tirpitz deck guards knew of the attack was when they saw periscopes breaking water off the beam. Hell broke loose in the fjord; guns thundered, a rain of rifle and machine-gun fire pattered on the small intruders...
...full story of their incredible exploit was published, only last week, when the two commanders were awarded the coveted Victoria Cross. Of the third Tiddler, nothing is known, except that just after the Tirpitz was torpedoed a great explosion was heard farther down the highwalled fjord. Apparently, past the worst of the barriers, she and her gallant crew had found a mine...