Header image of Subchaser Vigra leaving Scalloway.
We are intending to bring to the Allied Special Forces Memorial Grove the amazing story of the Shetland Bus.
The Norwegian Resistance Movement
The Norwegian Resistance Movement disrupted Nazi plans through co-ordinated sabotage operations with networks, and acts of civil disobedience that kept Norwegian national identity alive throughout the occupation 1940-45.
From the famous heavy water plant attack that crippled German Nuclear ambitions to the simple act of wearing paper clips as a sign of unity. Norwegian resistors found endless ways to undermine their occupiers.
The Shetland Bus carried out over 200 successful crossings. Landed over 400 tons of weapons and supplies and brought 400 Norwegian Agents to the UK for training as well as bringing back over 200 refugees from Norway.
Scalloway Shetland Bus Memorial
Alesund, Norway Shetland Bus Memorial & Lief Larsen Memorial Bergan.
Study Links.
- Anglo-Norwegian Resistance Commemoration Project
- Anglo-Norse Review
- Anglo-Norse Society
- Shetland Bus – Rebecca Archer
- Shetland Film Archive
- Shetland Museum & Archives
- Scalloway Museum
- Scalloway Museum – Shetland Bus
- Monument of the WW11 North Sea Traffic
- Jan Baalsrud MBE
- WW11 Norwegian Memorial Hyde Park
- Anglo-Norwegian Resistance Commemoration Project
- Irregular Warfare Dr Tony Insall
- Shetland Times article 13th May 2026
- The loss of the World War II workhorse hero M/S Vita
- How the ‘Shetland Bus’ helped defeat the Nazis in WW2
- Norwegian Civil Resistance WW2
- Irregular Warfare – Dr Tony Insall
- War Sailors Shetland Bus Memorial
- Norwegian Resistance Museum Oslo
- Norwegian Independent Company ~ Kompani Linge
- The Paper Clip Resistance ~part one
- The Paper Clip Resistance ~ part two
- The Paper Clip Resistance ~ part three
- Shetland Bus Boat facts for kids.
- Kergord and the Shetland Bus
- Shetland Bus Vessel Returns
- Special Forces Club Members visit Scalloway
- Loss of M/S Vita.
More to follow as this new memorial project gets underway.
Page Updated 2nd July 2026
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