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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]
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Operation Martin (Red) was an Allied clandestine operation of the Second World War to destroy a German airfield control tower at Bardufoss and organise secret military resistance groups in Tromsø in German-occupied Norway in 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 ...
A Washington, D.C. man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death and then texted a photograph of her dead body to other family members last Friday.
A handcuffed inmate whose fatal beating by correctional officers last year sparked outrage died by homicide, according to findings of an autopsy report a lawyer for the man's family shared Wednesday.
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.
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]