Colin Gubbins
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Major-General Sir Colin McVean Gubbins, was one of the co-founders of the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance
Gubbins in the 1940s
Hugh Dalton (right), Minister of Economic Warfare, and Colin Gubbins, chief of the Special Operations Executive, talking to a Czech officer during a visit to Czech troops near Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Shetland bus
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The Shetland Bus was the nickname of a clandestine special operations group that made a permanent link between Mainland Shetland in Scotland and German-occupied Norway from 1941 until the surrender of
Colin Gubbins
…credit for the creations of others – such as the invention of the myth that he was the man to come up with the idea of both the Auxiliary Units and the Shetland Bus, where they were both in reality inventions of his main political rival, Laurence Grand. During the war, his contemporaries often thought of him as a…
A memorial in Scalloway commemorating the Shetland Bus operation during the Second World War
Lunna House in Shetland where operations were coordinated.
A 2008 image of Scalloway harbour, the wartime base of the Shetland Bus.
Prince Olav slipway in 2010