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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
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
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
Shetland bus
…political maneuverings, the head of Section D, Laurence Grand, was removed from his position and Section D was absorbed into the SOE. His political rival, Colin Gubbins, did all that he could after the war to ensure that history forgot Grand's contributions to the war effort. Despite Gubbins' ability to control the…
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