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An annual remembrance march in Baalsrud's honour takes place on 25 July in Troms, where the participants follow his escape route for nine days. [4] A street in Kolbotn, Norway is named Jan Baalsruds plass (Jan Baalsrud's Place) in his honor. [5] In 2020, a bust in bronze created by sculptor Håkon Anton Fagerås on commission was unveiled. [6]
The 12th Man (Norwegian: Den 12. mann) is a 2017 Norwegian historical drama film directed by Harald Zwart, starring Thomas Gullestad as Jan Baalsrud, who escapes from occupying Nazi Germans on the island of Rebbenesøya, via the Lyngen Fjord and Manndalen, to neutral Sweden in the spring of 1943.
The escape attempt failed when the group's vessel MK Bratholm I was detected and attacked by the German Räumboot R56. To escape, MK Bratholm I was scuttled by its Norwegian crew by detonating 7.9 long tons; 8.8 short tons (8 t) explosives with a time delay fuse. The crew fled in a small boat, which was promptly sunk by the Germans.
Harrowing physical adventure “The 12th Man” retells the story of Jan Baalsrud, the sole survivor of a thwarted Allied sabotage mission against the Nazis in occupied Norway. Wounded, hunted ...
Skippered by Sverre Kverhellen. Attacked by a German torpedo boat. Of the crew of eight and four agents, only one, Jan Baalsrud, survived. The rest were either killed in the attack or taken prisoner by the Germans, tortured, and shot in prison. Those boats are the ten "Shetland Bus" boats that were lost from the base in Scalloway.
Drama. Biography of Jan Baalsrud's, Norwegian Resistance fighter, epic escape to neutral Sweden following Tromsø sabotage operation 1957 United Kingdom The One That Got Away: Roy Ward Baker: Escape of German POW Franz von Werra: 1957 United States Operation Mad Ball: Richard Quine: Comedy-romance. Closing of US Army hospital in France at end ...
Captured here in Austin, Texas, in 2022, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss perform on their Raising the Roof Tour. Plant revisits he early years with Led Zeppelin in a new doc, "Becoming Led Zeppelin."
Nine Lives (Norwegian: Ni Liv) is a 1957 Norwegian film about Jan Baalsrud, a commando and member of the Norwegian resistance during World War II.Trained in Britain, in 1943, he participates in an operation to destroy a German air control tower.