AM 079 SOE Operation OSPREY I

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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
10 6 4 02:25

Sqd: RAF 138
1. F/S Watson Halifax V Halifax V LL276 NF-F
Out: 19:39 DROP: C

1. Captains report:
Halifax aircraft "F" took off on operation OSPREY I captained by F/Sgt Watson. Target FRANCE(NORWAY) Operation completed. Landed BASE 02:25

AIR-27-956-1_2 p38

Agents:
Alf Espedal Lt. Leder
Torgeir Hetland Sgt Nestleder
Jan Weltzien Sgt
Knut Kiærland, Lt W/T operator

Instructed to work in the Stavanger area, establish W/T contact, prepare local guerrilla groups, organise groups to sabotage or if necessary protect lines of communication, receive weapons, and prepare a plan to neutralise Sola aerodrome.

Also dropped on 10 December the group began organisational work in the area but did not receive a delivery of weapons until May 1944. Contact was quickly made with the Milorg District Leader, who from February was in contact with SL in Oslo. From July 1944, the group began to instruct local Milorg groups. In autumn 1944 the area was hit by a series of arrests amongst SIS organisation and ‘Osprey’ went into hiding. At the end of the year the ‘Avocet’ team arrived.

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