US in Iceland

[Purple fang]

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/US ... eland.html

Detailed article about landings there.

The next day the convoy went through the flotsam and jetsam of the British battleship HMS Hood, which had been sunk by the German pocket battleship Bismarck on 24 May. Items of equipment from the Hood floating alongside their ships brought the war to the close attention of sober Marines lining the rails of their transports.

The British veterans were properly



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concerned about the German capability of mounting air and parachute attacks. Iceland was well within range of German forces occupying Norway, and during the late summer months of long daylight the Germans sent lone reconnaissance planes high over the island on photo missions, usually before reveille on Sundays.

The interior of the barn was decorated by a British officer, a talented and successful theater designer in civilian life, to resemble scenes of an English village pub.
Col Clifton M. Craig Collection
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When the Germans flew over, warning sirens, bells, gongs, and whistles went off. Foggy marines milled around, half dressed, as they donned helmets, gas masks, and their clothes and took up their arms. British antiaircraft artillery fired a few rounds, but usually the Nazi planes were long gone. Because the U.S. was not yet at war, the American flag was not flown over any marine camps purportedly to keep the Germans from identifying them as such. However, some Marines manned .30-caliber antiaircraft machine gun positions and acted as though an invasion was impending.

[Qvist]

Purple Fang:

1. The link does not seem to work
2. Can you please restructure your post so that it provides some sort of focus or purpose for the thread?

cheers

[Purple fang]

Link works when I click it. It is just an interesting overlook at the US landings there complete with maps, photos etc. Data not usually seen.

The Marines were deployed to Iceland because they were all volunteers, and unlike the draftee-encumbered Army, could be ordered overseas.

[Steen Ammentorp]

The link seems inaccessible at the moment but can be seen in Google's cache. Just search like this:

inurl:usmc inurl:iceland

Then you will get as hit #1, Then use the chached link.


Purple Fang,

I am still missing the point of this thread. Please elaborate.

/Steen Ammentorp

[Purple fang]

It is an informative detailed look at the US landings on Iceland. We are here by & large to learn right? here is an opportunity.

[Purple fang]

There was a pro-German element among the populace because, before the war, German engineers had built Iceland's roads and had piped in hot water from the geysers to heat greenhouses inthe city.

[Trackhead M2]

Link works when I click it. It is just an interesting overlook at the US landings there complete with maps, photos etc. Data not usually seen.

The Marines were deployed to Iceland because they were all volunteers, and unlike the draftee-encumbered Army, could be ordered overseas.

Dear PF,
I take exception to your suggestion that US Army forces were not deployed to Iceland. A company of tanks from the US 70th Tank Battalion was deployed to Iceland prior to TORCH.
Strike Swiftly,
TH-M2

[Andy H]

Hi

Purple Fang hasn't posted/visited here in 6yrs.

Regards

Andy H