Jan Baalsrud - 8x10 photo

Jan Baalsrud - 8x10 photo "During the German invasion of Norway in 1940, he fought in Vestfold. Helater escaped to Sweden, but he was convicted of espionage and expelled from the country. Heeventually arrived in Britain in 1941, after having travelled through the Soviet Union, Africaand the US, where he joined the Norwegian Company Linge. In early 1943, he, three other commandosair control tower at Bardufoss, and recruit for the Norwegian resistance movement. This missionwas compromised when he and his fellow soldiers, seeking a trusted resistance contact, accidentallymade contact with an unaligned civilian shopkeeper of the same name as their contact who betrayedthem to the Germans. The morning after their blunder, on March 29, their fishing boat Brattholm– containing 8 tons of explosives intended to destroy the air control tower – was attacked bya time delay fuse, and fled in a small boat; however the small boat was promptly sunk by theGermans. Jan and others swam ashore in ice cold Arctic waters. Jan was the only soldier to evadecapture and, soaking wet and missing one sea boot, he escaped up into a snow gully, where heshot and killed the leading German Gestapo officer with his pistol. He evaded capture for roughlytwo months, suffering from frostbite and snow blindness. His deteriorating physical conditionhut at Revdal, which he called Hotel Savoy, that Jan was forced to operate his legs with a pocketknife. He believed that he had blood poisoning and that drawing the blood out would help. Notlong after that Jan was left on a high plateau on a stretcher in the snow for 27 days due toweather and German patrols in the town of Manndalen, Kåfjord, his life hanging by a thread.It was during this time while he lay behind a snow wall built round a rock to shelter him thatAfter that it was thanks to the efforts of his fellow Norwegians that Jan was transported bystretcher towards the border with Finland. Then he was put in the care of some Sami (the nativepeople of northern Fenno-Scandinavia) who with reindeer pulled him on a sled across Finlandand into neutral Sweden, where he was safe at last. From Saarikoski in northern Sweden he wascollected by a seaplane of the Red Cross and flown to Boden. He spent seven months in a Swedishthe RAF. He soon went to Scotland to help train other Norwegian patriots who were going backto Norway to continue the fight against the Germans. After a long struggle to learn to walkproperly again without his toes, he eventually got his own way, and was sent to Norway as anagent, where he was still on active service at the time of the war's end in 1945. The end ofthe war signalled the end of German occoupation - and he was able to immediately travel to OsloHowarth, written in 1955 ISBN 978-1-84767-845-4)." Pickid: 443598
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