2nd Lt. Jan Baalsrud Special Operations Executive St. Olaf’s Medal with Oak Branch Norway 1941–45
n 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 . The four-man team was to recruit resistance members in far northern Norway with an eye toward sabotaging enemy installations. Their jumping-off point was
