23 Oct

According to a 1945 OSS report I discovered in the National Archives, the Gestapo was said to have its meeting place in Stockholm in a restaurant called Regnbågen. The word Regnbågen translates to mean Rainbow. Today the building houses the "Spy Bar."...

21 Oct

When I was going through sixty-year-old files and boxes from WWII OSS Stockholm at the National Archives this past week, I found several references to "Penetration" of the USAAF Internees by German agents. ...

30 Sep

Djurgården, another section of Stockholm east of Staden, or Old Town, consists of an island as well as an area to the north of it, known as Norra Djurgården (Northern Djurgården) separated by the bay of Djurgårdsbrunnsviken....

17 Sep

During World War II, the Norrmalm district of Stockholm, as well as Östermalm, is where most of the day to day activities of the people who worked at The American Legation seemed to occur, in particular, the southern part closest to Staden....

11 Sep

I want to understand as much as I can about the areas of Stockholm where my parents lived and worked during World War II. So I will be familiar with the names of the districts, the bridges, the main roads, the landmarks I’m going to...

02 Sep

I was delighted to find some excellent resources for what it was like in Sweden during the war in the Rotarian Magazine archives....

30 Aug

I have just discovered a group of aviation historians and enthusiasts from Sweden who have created a website dedicated to the World War II forced landings there. ...

16 Aug

This past weekend, I was inspired to go back through my photographs of the Liberty Lady B-17. Most of them have come from the scrapbooks of our Dad, Herman F. Allen, the bombardier. Several have come from other crew members or their families....

14 Aug

On September 21st and 22nd 1944 four rusting ships left Närpes, a city on the west coast of Finland, and on a stormy night crossed over the Gulf of Bothnia (upper portion of the Baltic Sea) to two cities on Sweden’s eastern coastline, It...

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