#Jan Baalsrud SOE Norway

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Jan Baalsrud MBE (1917-1988) SOE Norwegian Section

(Image source Unknown) In early 1943 Baalsrud was part of Operation Martin consisting of three other Norwegian agents who were taken to Norway by a clandestine fishing boat with a Norwegian crew of eight. Their mission was to destroy a control tower at a German airfield at Bardufoss and then recruit and establish a resistance movement. They had been given the name of a resistance contact who…