Viking Battalion Book

10/14/2024

Images like this made my father rule out service in the navy or merchant marine. The Army found him at Univerity of Washington in late 1942.

But it was glimpses if the USS Texas, es**rting their convoy to the UK, that brought reassurance.

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05/07/2024

Members of the Defense Attache’s Office of the Norwegian Embassy honoring Col H.D.Hansen in remeberance on 🇳🇴 liberation day. He served as the commander of the 99th Infnatry Battalion (Separate) in WWII.

In memeory of his service and their sacrifices for our freedom.

01/31/2024

80 years ago: In January 1944, the Allies were winning the Battle of the Atlantic, despite the fact that the Germans had developed new target-seeking torpedoes. During 1943, Nortraship, the Norwegian Merchant Marine, had lost 62 ships and nearly 700 of their Warsailors had died. In January 1944, the Norwegian destroyer Stord, along with 8 other warships es**rted a large convoy of 20 Allied merchant ships around the northern tip of occupied Norway to Murmansk, Russia,

A number of German U-Boats, submarines, followed the convoy, but only 3 ships were sunk. The Stord and the other es**rt vessels then followed the eastbound convoy. 15 German submarines were waiting at Bjørnøya, and they attacked the night between the 29th. and 30th of January. But the speed and agility of the es**rt vessels stopped them and the convoy arrived without a single ship lost.