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MTB 345
''MTB 345'' was an experimental motor torpedo boat constructed in 1941, which saw limited service with the Royal Navy before being transferred to the exiled Royal Norwegian Navy on 16 March 1943. She sailed with the Royal Norwegian Navy for three months in 1943, until captured by German forces on 28 July 1943, during her second mission to the coast of occupied Norway. Two days after their capture, the crew of ''MTB 345'' were executed by the Germans based on Hitler's Commando Order. Following their capture of ''MTB 345'', the Germans pressed the motor torpedo boat into Kriegsmarine service, renaming her ''SA 7''. ''SA 7'' was lost in a fire in the North Sea in August 1943.
After the end of the Second World War, the British Admiralty investigated the Commando Order killings in Norway, and sought out German officers suspected of involvement. In a war crimes trial, ''Generaloberst'' (Colonel General) Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was sentenced to death for his role in the Commando Order executions that occurred in Norway during the occupation, including the killing of ''MTB 345'''s crew. ''Sicherheitsdienst'' (Security Service, SD) commander Hans Wilhelm Blomberg was executed in January 1946 for his role in the killing, while Admiral Otto von Schrader committed suicide in Norwegian custody in July 1945 before he could be brought to trial.
==Background==
Following the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940, and the subsequent 62-day Norwegian Campaign that ended in June 1940 with the German conquest of the country, the Royal Norwegian Navy was exiled in the United Kingdom. One way the exiled Norwegian forces attempted to strike back was by motor torpedo boat attacks on German-controlled shipping. After initial operations in the English Channel from July 1940 onwards, operations against the coast of occupied Norway from the Shetland Islands began in November 1942 and continued throughout the war in Europe. In total 30 motor torpedo boats served in the Royal Norwegian Navy during the war years.〔Abelsen 1986, p. 173〕〔Hegland and Lilleheim 1998, pp. 66–75〕〔Sivertsen 2000, p. 254〕
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