AM 069 SOE Operation LAPWING 1

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Særmelding BBC : NA
Code : Signal bakke: NA Signal fly: NA
EUREKA: NA
GEE: NA

CON PAK M HD CRS SPD LAND MERKNAD
8 8 4 03:20

Squad: RAF 161
1. Lt Hysing-Dahl Halifax V EB239 MA-Y

Out: 17:30 DROP: NC

Agents:
Rolf Arnesen
Inge Fosseide
Sigurd Haugen
Lt Reidar Kvaal

1. Captains report Leaflets:8-N.14

Operation abadoned owing to adverse weather conditions, pinpoointing impossible, leaflets dropped over Hamar area.

Air-27-1068-4-10 p2

The objective was to reconnoitre the Røros Railway, south of Trondheim, with a view to sabotage. Dropped on 10 October. The W/T set was damaged but after several trips to Sweden radio contact was established in June 1944. During August, October, and November 1944 an additional five men strengthened the party. It carried out its first action against the railway network on 10 December and again on 29 December 1944. Three men from the party were later killed in a clash with German forces.
Ian Herrington, PhD p 354

"To provide further instruction for groups in Gudbrandsdal and Østerdal, which it was believed had been taken over by Milorg, and obtain fresh information on these groups. To arrange for assassinations during ‘Ratweek’ in November 1943. Dropped on 21 September and carried out extensive training with local groups over the following weeks. Although they prepared for ‘Ratweek’ no assassinations were undertaken. In February 1944 they crossed the border into Sweden.

At least three NIC (1) teams, „Goldfinch‟ in Oslo, „Goshawke‟ in the Gudbrandsdal, and „Redwing‟ in Bergen, were assigned to take part in this joint action. They were instructed to wait for a message, „Dei som skulle vekia – mot de som skulle siga‟ (those that shall give way – against those that shall win), which would signal that ‘Ratweek’ should begin. It was eventually broadcast over the BBC on 6 December 1943 at 18.00 hrs"

Ian Herrington PhD - p 353

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