In late March 1943 25-year-old Norwegian commando Jan Baalsrud, three other Special Operations Executive officers and a crew of eight sailed northeast from the Shetland Islands aboard the fishing boat Brattholm.The four-man team was to recruit resistance members in far northern Norway with an eye toward sabotaging enemy installations. Gjennom 5 episoder fortelles Baalsrudhistorien p en ny mte og s sannferdig som vi kjenner den i dag. He had just one boot, having lost the other in the water. This particular effort, however, was a complete failure. From here, it is a 4-kilometre walk to Toftefjorden. There was a young girl who was the first to get a close look at Baalsrud's frostbitten feet and tried to bandage them as best she could. Seint om ettermiddagen, fredag 2. april 1943 blei tte motstandsmenn avretta av tyskarane p skytebana p Grnnsen nord p Tromsya. We Die Alone, the first book-length account, published in 1955 by the British journalist David Howarth, became an instant classic in Norway. Su nombre era Jan Baalsrud. Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian commando in WWII. In March 1943, a detachment of four Kompani Linge commandos and eight other Norwegians embarked on Operation Martin. ON MARCH 29, 1943, with the brutal Norwegian winter not yet waning, Jan Baalsrud and 11 commandos and crewmen slipped into a secluded cove in the country's northern fjords. June 12, 2022 . Upon learning that Operation Martin had failed, the twelve men quickly returned to the fishing boat that was packed with their explosives and attempted to escape. There was the fisherman who outfitted Baalsrud with new boots and a pair of skis. His soaked uniform was crystallising, hardening into a shell of ice. Before he died on December 30, 1988, he was moved to a rehabilitation centre near Oslo that his own donations and support had helped to create. When he noticed a soldier gaining on him, he pulled it out and fired a handful of failed shots before a final successful one killed his enemy. Publisert 22. feb. 2016 kl. Please try again later. After escaping the Nazi occupation of Norway in 1940, he had just returned, alongside 11 compatriots, as part of a sabotage. Baalsrud and others swam ashore in ice-cold Arctic waters. Unfortunately, Hitler had different plans.