| The OSS Norwegian Special Operations Group in World War II |  | Author: Bruce H. Heimark
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Category: Book
Buy New: $64.95
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 5751471
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0275948609
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.548673
EAN: 9780275948603
ASIN: 0275948609
Publication Date: October 30, 1994
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Condition: Never opened, never shelved. Cover is flawless.
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Product Description
The Operational Groups (OGs) are the "unsung heroes" of the OSS, and this story is about the Norwegian OGs, who operated deep behind enemy lines in France in 1944, and in Norway, China, and Indochina in 1945. OGs were the "Infantry of the OSS." They were uniformed military personnel designed as hard-hitting units trained to operate deep behind enemy lines to conduct sabotage upon Axis forces. The OGs were trained in parachuting, demolitions, weaponry, commando tactics, communications, amphibious warfare, and skiing.
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Leader of operation RYPE - OGs leader from US, Bill Colby double-crossed? September 6, 2008
Ole Christian Ostlund
Chapter 15, "The Tragic Delivery of the RYPE Mission", page 70, quote; "In January 1945, the advanced party traveled by air from Scotland to the target area. On board were Lt. Tom Sather, T/Sgt. Borge Langeland, S/Sgt. Arne Listeid, and a Norwegian liaisson officer with the code name Hoel (Herbert Helgesen from Trondheim). ....... The advance party was fortunate it did not drop.....the Germans must have been aware of Operation RYPE. A large German ski party was dispatched from Steinkjer to Gauptjernet that night....."unquote.
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The Norwegian Liaisson officer Herbert Helgesen was one of the leaders of Milorg in mid Norway with direct contact to Milorgs top man Jens Chr. Hauge. Hauge was a key architect and backplayer for the left wing coup in Norway in May 1945. Hauge had contact with Moscow as well as the Germans during wartime.
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