WWII - 1941, Norway: British Commandos In Spectacular Raids On Norwegian Isles

WWII - 1941, Norway: Commando Raid on Norwegian Town of Maloy on Vagsoy Island Intertitle: First Pictures: British Commandos In Spectacular Raids On Norwegian Isles. 21:38:15 British fleet underway on North sea. Officers & planning meeting aboard ship. RAF Planes overhead. 21:38:43 British soldiers prepare hand grenades, CUs. MS & CUs men waiting, then departing on mission. 21:39:05 Landing craft at dawn; enemy flares. British ships firing. British troops advance on shore in snow, past burning houses. Arresting Nazi soldiers. Wounded German garrison commander taken away on stretcher. MS burning houses. 21:40:03 LS burning mountain village w/ German HQ; British troops watch. Officer talks into field telephone. Commandos make another landing w/ motion picture cameraman Jack Ramsden off ramp of landing craft w/ camera. 21:40:35 Destroyer into fjord. Commandos enter burning town; street fighting & machine gun battle. 21:41:05 Norwegian collaborators & German soldiers arrested & led at gunpoint. 21:41:26 House blown up. Burning Nazi headquarters. Commando troops past wrecked house, leave island; wounded. 21:42:18 MCU Nazi prisoner on boat. Journey back to main ship. Prisoners loaded on ship. 21:42:58 Shipboard journey home to Britain thru heavy seas. British troops on board pose w/ Nazi battle flag & wearing bits of Nazi uniforms. WW2; 27Dec41; Operation Archery; 1940s;