> Uncomfortable with the crowd, Consul Shepherd turned to the Icelandic police. "Would you mind ... getting the crowd to stand back a bit, so that the soldiers can get off the destroyer?" he asked. "Certainly," came the reply.
> One Icelander snatched a rifle from a marine and stuffed a cigarette in it. He then threw it back to the marine and told him to be careful with it. An officer arrived to scold the marine.
I don’t know if your history books are correct… in WWII, Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany and Finland was even allied with them against the Soviet Union before the Soviets forced Finland to drive the Nazis out of the country.
Admittedly not a ground war, but that's not entirely true:
> In total, there were 97 air attacks on northern Australia, though air reconnaissance was carried out over the region by Axis Powers through much of 1944.
> German and Japanese surface raiders and submarines operated in New Zealand waters on several occasions in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1945, sinking a total of four ships while Japanese reconnaissance aircraft flew over Auckland and Wellington preparing for a projected Japanese invasion of New Zealand.
And which countries would those be?
Iceland New Zealand Australia Sweden Norway Switzerland Finland (winter war might count)
Iceland was invaded by a foreign power (the UK) during WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iceland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_occupation_of_Iceland
(Very politely, but still...)
> Uncomfortable with the crowd, Consul Shepherd turned to the Icelandic police. "Would you mind ... getting the crowd to stand back a bit, so that the soldiers can get off the destroyer?" he asked. "Certainly," came the reply.
> One Icelander snatched a rifle from a marine and stuffed a cigarette in it. He then threw it back to the marine and told him to be careful with it. An officer arrived to scold the marine.
I don’t know if your history books are correct… in WWII, Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany and Finland was even allied with them against the Soviet Union before the Soviets forced Finland to drive the Nazis out of the country.
All the Pacific Island countries.
Australia, New Zealand, etc…
Admittedly not a ground war, but that's not entirely true:
> In total, there were 97 air attacks on northern Australia, though air reconnaissance was carried out over the region by Axis Powers through much of 1944.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_air_raids_on_Australi...
and
> German and Japanese surface raiders and submarines operated in New Zealand waters on several occasions in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1945, sinking a total of four ships while Japanese reconnaissance aircraft flew over Auckland and Wellington preparing for a projected Japanese invasion of New Zealand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_New_Zealan...
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