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Jan Sigurd Baalsrud, MBE (13 December 1917 – 30 December 1988) was a commando in the Norwegian resistance trained by the British during World War II. Biography
Eleven Norwegian soldiers from the Company Linge died; one was shot at the site, ten were captured, interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo and then executed in Tromsø. Jan Baalsrud managed to escape from Rebbenesøya to neutral Sweden ; his three-month escape was made through Lyngen and Manndalen with the help of local villagers, during ...
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.
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.
Jan Baalsrud, 71, Norwegian Resistance commando. [157] Yuli Daniel, 63, Soviet writer and dissident (Sinyavsky–Daniel trial), stroke. [158] Takeo Fujisawa, 78, Japanese businessman, co-founder of Honda Motor Co., heart attack. [159] Dennis H. Klatt, 50, American researcher in speech and hearing science, cancer. [160]
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.
DJ Unk's Big Oomp Records label and his wife, Sherkita Long-Platt, revealed he died on Jan. 24. ... Long-Platt confirmed the news of her husband's death earlier this week, writing on Facebook that ...