Word: lofotens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lofoten Islands are bare and gaunt; like a saw of teeth in a giant shark's mouth, their peaks rise out of the sea off Norway's coast...
...February 1942, 54-year-old Dean Fjellbu was fed up. Calmly, and with certain knowledge of the consequences, he preached a defiant anti-Nazi sermon (TIME, Dec. 25). For over a year the quisling police kept him under house arrest, then banished him with his family to the Lofoten Islands...
...latest turn in British tactics is shown in an exciting sequence of Commandos training. One Commando attack is shown in naming detail: the destruction of fuel dumps on Norway's Lofoten Islands. This is the most significant fact about New Soldiers. For this picture, the latest in the Canadian Government Film Unit's World in Action series, talks solely in terms of attack. The first of the series (Churchill's Island), made over a year ago, spoke only of defense...
...talked about the Commandos with their leader, Lord Louis Mountbatten-interviewed men who had been in the Commando raids at the Lofoten Islands and St. Nazaire-lunched with Winston Churchill-questioned Anthony Eden, Sir Stafford Cripps, Oliver Lyttelton and many others on the progress...
...flat, destroyed a radio mast and transmitter, shot down a lone plane offering resistance, sank a German patrol boat, took several prisoners including six quislings. The Commandos did not lose a man. Simultaneously another Commando unit made successful raids on Vaagsoy and Maaloy, islands several hundred miles south of Lofoten...