Sverre Granlunn ( Norwegian Sverre Granlund ; November 9, 1918 , Syouherad - February 10, 1943 , near Fugleuver) - a Norwegian commando soldier, a corporal of the Norwegian Army, and an agent for special operations.
Sverre Granlunn | ||||
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Norwegian Sverre granlund | ||||
Date of Birth | November 9, 1918 | |||
Place of Birth | Sougerad , Norway | |||
Date of death | February 10, 1943 (24 years) | |||
Place of death | Fugluijfjord , Norway | |||
Affiliation | Norway / Great Britain | |||
Type of army | special forces ( Office of Special Operations ) | |||
Years of service | 1940-1943 | |||
Rank | corporal | |||
Part | 1st Separate Norwegian Company | |||
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Biography
Before the war
Born in Soucherade. The father comes from Ayer , the mother comes from Heyland [1] . He lived in Saltdal and Bodo , worked in the railway company Nordland Line .
World War II
Sverre was a member of the Norwegian Red Cross (youth division). His services were needed by the Norwegian army in 1940, when the country went to war with Germany. He fought near Narvik, and after the capitulation of the country he fled to Sweden in 1941, from where he got to the UK. The British recruited Granlunn to the Office of Special Operations and assigned him to the 1st Norwegian separate company [1] . After Sverre was sent back to his homeland for sabotage: on May 27, 1941, he was baptized in fire, setting a fire in the engine room of a canning factory in Bodø.
In 1942, he took part as part of Operation Musketon to detonate the power plant in Glumfjord. Granlunn and Corporal Erling Dupdret were the only Norwegians in the squad of 12 (the rest 10 are British). Together with Captain Joseph Houghton, they had to sneak into Svartisen: there, Sverre was forced to use a weapon and shoot the guard. After the explosion and the destruction of the dam, he went to Fukandalen (mountain resort), where he was given a map for access to the bridge, through which he needed to get to the mountain. By dusk, Sverre never found the bridge, after which, together with Houghton and Corporal Dupdret, he went back to the resort, but there he entered the fray with the Germans, who were interrogating the resort owner. Dupdret was hit with a bayonet in a fight, after which Granlunn, accompanied by commandos Trigg, O'Brien and Fairclaf, fled first to Stockholm and then flew to London. On September 24, Dupdret died in a hospital in Bodø.
Doom
As it turned out, only O'Brien and Fairclaf then survived the war. For seven days, Granlunn overcame the distance of 250 km with practically no edible supplies and weapons, only in military uniform, but he got to Sweden. After flying to London, he received a new mission. On February 10, 1943, the Norwegian submarine Uredd , on which Granlunn sailed to Norway as part of Operation Chaika (the USO's regular mission), ran into a German mine south-west of Fugleuver (near Bodø ) and sank. As a result of the explosion, Granlunn died. Mina was established by the German coaster “Cobra”: the place of death was found by the Norwegian sailors several years after the end of the war in the Fugloifjord.
Memory
Granlunn was awarded the Norwegian Military Cross with a sword, as well as the Norwegian Military Medal and the British Medal for Valiant Behavior [1] [2] . In 1995, the Norwegian sculptor Lailoy Lorenzen created a bust installed at the Saltdal Museum in Ronan .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Ording, Arne ; Johnson, Gudrun & Garder, Johan (1949), "Granlund, Sverre" , Våre falne 1939-1945 , vol. 1, Oslo: The State of Norway, p. 711 , < http://da2.uib.no/cgi-win/WebBok.exe?slag=lesside&bokid=vaarefalne1&sideid=711&storleik= > . Checked August 20, 2011.
- ↑ Gjems-Onstad, Erik (1995). Krigskorset og St. Olavsmedaljen med ekegren (Oslo: Grøndahl Dreyer) ISBN 82-504-2190-6