#frederikshavn

Spent the day in Frederikshavn, Denmark, with my wonderful niece and my sister

Classic fishing vessel as they'd look 1900 - 1940s. This one is out of Frederikshavn in Northern Jutland, facing Kattegat. These vessels had diesel engines made locally... they'd have like 1 stroke every second.

1 - Le mur de l'Atlantique, une ligne de défense côtière de 2,685 km construite entre 1942 et 1944

©Uberstroker

2 - Un des bunkers de la batterie d'artillerie de Frederikshavn - Danemark - 5 juillet 2006

Josef ‘Tom’ Søndergaard (April 8, 1906 - 1946) was a hero of the Danish Resistance during WWII. He was head of the first Holger Danske resistance group, and, working directly with the British SOE, he acquired guns and explosives and began a series of sabotage actions.

The culmination of these was the blowing up of Forum, the concert hall and sports arena in Copenhagen which was being used to quarter German occupation soldiers. ‘Tom’ had actually been arrested on suspicion by Danish police shortly before the sabotage was to take place, and his Holger Danske comrades had to bust him out of jail (Vestre Fængsel) so he could lead them.

During the Forum sabotage action Søndergaard was wounded by shards of glass and brick fragments and he had to flee quickly to Sweden to recuperate. He never fully recovered and died from follow-on effects the year after the War ended. But for the duration of the War he was based out of Sweden as a weapons smuggler and ran ships between Gothenburg and multiple ports in Northern Jutland.

Skagen, North Denmark Region, Denmark 

by Christian Wig from Denmark