A week ago me and my father got on the the theme of the merchant fleet in ww2 and its war convoys. Of course it has not been forgotten in Norway as in recent years we have begun to honor our proud sailors. We even made a movie. But do the rest of the world remember our countrymen's deads?
My father told me about one of my now dead neighbours, he was a war sailor that got torpedoed 2 times throughout the war. He was a strong man that never cried, until he was with my grandfather and watched the news. On that day they talked about the war convoys, that broke him.
They never got the honor that they deserved, early on we looked on them as people who escaped the war but we have since tried to remember their heroisme. My question is: do other countries remember what they did?
https://navyhistory.au/the-debt-owed-to-the-norwegian-merchant-service-and-mv-herstein/
I write this in memory of those who died or lost loved ones in that terrible war.
by Hamsteren2
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A norwegian ship survived and sailed after the greatest explosion in modern history, the halifax explosion. It crashed into the ship that exploded. Captain survived too
edit: non-nuclear.
I think it was winston churchill who said that,if it hadnt been for the norwegian fleet the war would have been prolonged with atleast 2 years.