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Hennell was sent to Iceland by the War Artists Advisory Committee for three months from 31 July 1943. The British had occupied, the previously neutral and strategically vital, Iceland since May 1940, following Hitler’s invasion of Norway and Denmark in the preceding month. In 1943, the defence of Iceland had moved from the British, who remained there in small numbers, to the Americans (30,000 US troops were stationed there).
Hveragerði ‘(hot-spring yard’) is a town and municipality in the south of Iceland and 28 miles east of Reykjavík.
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