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...victory of World War II late in September, but the announcement was not made until last week. No Jutland or Trafalgar was this engagement: a U.S. warship patrolling Greenland waters to protect the huge Navy and Army air bases now nearing completion at Newfoundland, captured a 60-ton Norwegian steamer. Aboard was a crew of 20, including an agent of the German Gestapo. Their mission: to establish radio stations on the fjord-fissured, thousand-harbored Greenland Coast, keep Germany advised of the most vital of all information in the Battle of the Atlantic, the weather. One of the stations...
This week, as the search went on for other Nazi radio stations in Greenland, the Norwegian freighter, identified as the Busko, was escorted into Boston Harbor...
Norway. Two trade-union leaders, Viggo Hansteen and Rolf Vickstroen, refused to have their eyes bandaged, stared at the Nazi firing squad, sang the Norwegian anthem...
...Marston's tough Marines: they were barked at (ordinary soldiers are called "dogfaces" by the devil-dog Marines). Once the Army force is established in the camps built during the past few months, General Bonesteel will put his men through general maneuvers alongside of U.S. Marines, British and Norwegian forces. Still in command of all Icelandic troops, including the U.S., is British Major General Henry Osborne Curtis...
They could explain why raiding Spitsbergen was more effective than raiding the moon. It was not quite so easy to explain why they had not tried a raid on the Norwegian coast, when the Norwegians were so hopefully insurgent and when their own equipment and chances were so much better than the last time they made that rough trip. In an attempt to explain, War Secretary Captain David Margesson last week wrote his first newspaper article since taking office...