Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Norwegian Underground Strong...
...author of "Duel for the Northland" asserted that the Norwegian underground movement was extremely strong, keeping in constant contact with the British. He added that most of the underground publications were edited by college students and that they were printed on very thin paper so that they could be swallowed by the reader if he were accosted by the Germans...
Next to the late great Nicolò Paganini, the most famous violinist of the 19th Century was a fantastic Norwegian named Ole Bull. Ole (rhymes with Café au lait) took scarcely a violin lesson in his life. His brilliant playing was always eccentric in technique and in emotion it was usually the most sumptuous ham. But big, courtly, iron-muscled Ole was the most assertive personality in Norway and one of the most assertive personalities outside it. Last fortnight the first full-length biography of Ole Bull was published by his granddaughter's husband, Mortimer Smith of Sandy...
Decimated and divided between Baltic and Norwegian waters, the remnant of the German Navy now has only a limited nuisance value...
...tiny Norwegian port of Bodo the carrier's planes, thus handsomely escorted, scored heavily: they put at least twelve direct hits on eight merchantmen (ranging in size from 3,000 to 10,000 tons). The planes also buffeted a landing barge, a 500-ton ship, a 1,200-ton ore vessel. Lost: three U.S. planes, destroyed by anti-aircraft fire...