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This week, the 4th March it will be 85 years since the Allied commando raid on the german occupied Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway. In the early hours the 4th of March four landings from the sea were made. The goal of the raids were to destroy german infrastructure, fish- and paraffin factories and any shipping connected to the germans.

I got the box to the surface and it was of the type that had held optical sights for machineguns. And it was heavy. I gently used my blade to open it, hoping the sight would have survived, coz the box was pretty rusted and had probably been cooked in the fire.

The finds were worse. Rifle casings, most often rotted steel casings, and food tins. We searched a spot for a while where we had a tiny bit more luck, finding uniform buttons and coins. There a silver topped salt shaker also came out of the soggy mud.

The days here North are getting shorter and the forests and mountainsides are rapidly getting dressed in yellow, red and orange, and the dig

Not far from where I live is the remnants of an Atlantikwall fortification, the Heeres Küsten Batterie 20/972 Ansnes,

In 1944 Soviet forces broke through the German defences in Narva, Estonia, after six months of fighting. The German forces withdrew