Today in World War II History—March 4, 1941
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 by Sarah Sundin
Raid on the Lofoten Islands: British Commandos watching fish oil tanks burning, 4 March 1941 (Imperial War Museum: N 396)
85 Years Ago—Mar. 4, 1941: British & Norwegian commandos raid Lofoten Islands, Norway, in first large-scale commando raid of WWII: destroy oil plants, sink 11 ships, confiscate two Enigma machines and code books, take 314 Norwegian volunteers to England, and capture 240 German prisoners.
Canada orders Japanese-Canadians 16 and older to register with Mounted Police as “suspicious aliens.”
