This is a great scene from the movie "The 12th man" about SOE agent Jan Baalsrud and his desperate escape to Sweden in WWII.
12 Norwegian SOE agents traveled to northern Norway on a small fishing vessel to sabotage the Germans, but they are caught when they were about to go ashore:
I found the entrie movie online. It's not subtitled, but it's a highly visual movie. The villans are in nazi uniforms, the most evil-looking uniforms in history, but the story is mostly about Jan Baalsrud's battle with the elements. The events in the movie are true with the exception of a couple of a exagerated scenes.
I suggest anyone with an interst in WWII resistance and survival stories watch it soon, because it's bound to dispear from the net soon:
Can you belive the lead actor isn't a an actor, he's a rapper!
And Jonathan Rhys Meyers did the whole role in German. I think he's good at languages, I saw a movie where he spoke a lot of Mandarin.
I found the entrie movie online. It's not subtitled, but it's a highly visual movie. The villans are in nazi uniforms, the most evil-looking uniforms in history, but the story is mostly about Jan Baalsrud's battle with the elements. The events in the movie are true with the exception of a couple of a exagerated scenes.
I suggest anyone with an interst in WWII resistance and survival stories watch it soon, because it's bound to dispear from the net soon:
There's been some talk about The Guns of Navarone lately, mostly by me. We know it leans heavy towards the cinematic and not the realistic, but I wonder about the mountain climbing part. I'm thinking of not just climbing mountains, but using ropes and other equipment to do so. Were there any cases of WWII special forces doing mountaineering on an operation? We know many SF units trained at it , including the Commandoes.
I know of the US Rangers climbing Pointe du Hoc on D-day, but that was in the elite infantry role and not really special operations in my opinion. Can anyone think of an example?
There's been some talk about The Guns of Navarone lately, mostly by me. We know it leans heavy towards the cinematic and not the realistic, but I wonder about the mountain climbing part. I'm thinking of not just climbing mountains, but using ropes and other equipment to do so. Were there any cases of WWII special forces doing mountaineering on an operation? We know many SF units trained at it , including the Commandoes.
I know of the US Rangers climbing Pointe du Hoc on D-day, but that was in the elite infantry role and not really special operations in my opinion. Can anyone think of an example?
Would Operation Gunnerside count? It's the raid on the Norsk Hydro Vemork plant.
Also: I don't know for sure, I would have to dig up some reference, but I would wager that British covert teams operating in the Balkans as well as in the Greek islands had to do some rock climbing.
"I mean, she almost kills bond...with her ass."
-Mr Arlington Beech
Gunnerside doesn't count. The saboteurs had to pass a gorge on the way to the factory, but they didn't use any ropes and the main danger was not knocking over any stones that would alert the German guards,
I agree the Balkans and the Greek islands (like in the movie) are our best bets.
On Stalin's Secret Service - Richard Sorge
An entertaining video on Stalin's main spy in Japan, one of the few cases of spies who probably changed history.
They absolutely were. There are some exagerations, let's say the Germans were much less active in the actual events, but the real story was always Jan Baalsrud's fight to survive in the harsh nature and the civilians who saved him.
When you & a few mates decide to take a tanker hostage, it is probably wise to not do it when you are only about 30 minutes away from the main base of the elite Special Boat Service (SBS) HQ in Poole, Dorset ) )
Needless to say that it only took 7 minutes for control to be retaken by the elite force. Job well done -{
When you & a few mates decide to take a tanker hostage, it is probably wise to not do it when you are only about 30 minutes away from the main base of the elite Special Boat Service (SBS) HQ in Poole, Dorset ) )
Needless to say that it only took 7 minutes for control to be retaken by the elite force. Job well done -{
When you & a few mates decide to take a tanker hostage, it is probably wise to not do it when you are only about 30 minutes away from the main base of the elite Special Boat Service (SBS) HQ in Poole, Dorset ) )
Needless to say that it only took 7 minutes for control to be retaken by the elite force. Job well done -{
Iranian authorities claim the leader of their nuclear program was assassinated (by Israel?) using a satelite-controled machine gun with artificial intelligence. How Bondian!
This year an unknown novel written by the legendary WWII SOE agent Max Manus will be published. He wrote it in 1948,but decided not to publish it because of the controversial content. The story is set after the war and the main character is the fictional Freddy. He was in the resistance and was a "Rottejeger" ("rat hunter", the term used about people who. assassinated torturers, Gestapo informeres and other dispicable people). Freddy struggle to return to society and normal life and suffer from what we now know as PTSD. Manus himself never was a "rat hunter", but he knew very well agents who were. Max Manus died in 1996 and only his family knew of the novel. Manus published his autobiography in two parts a few years after the war ("It tends to go well" and "It gets serious"). He was a born story teller and the books sold very well. A shortened version of the books was published in English with the title "Underwater saboteur". I look forward to reading his novel "Rottejegeren" ("The Rat Hunter").
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If it’s powered by solar energy no wonder it was found in Scotland - there isn’t any sun there to power it
12 Norwegian SOE agents traveled to northern Norway on a small fishing vessel to sabotage the Germans, but they are caught when they were about to go ashore:
Next scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRFPT3F2W4&feature=emb_logo
The trailer (Eng. subst.) The scenes from about 1 min. were filmed on the gun range I used during my military service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQNmp50KcPU&feature=emb_logo
I suggest anyone with an interst in WWII resistance and survival stories watch it soon, because it's bound to dispear from the net soon:
Entire movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1tB4ztKP8M
Had to have a sampler; foookin painful to watch the Hero run around in the snow with one bare foot.
I have done enough naked frolicking (ask no questions - read no lies
-Mr Arlington Beech
And Jonathan Rhys Meyers did the whole role in German. I think he's good at languages, I saw a movie where he spoke a lot of Mandarin.
https://visegradinsight.eu/ryszard-kuklinski-betrayed-his-state-but-not-his-nation/
-Mr Arlington Beech
It's also on Netflix (UK). I will watch it tonight, hopefully. Thanks N24.
I know of the US Rangers climbing Pointe du Hoc on D-day, but that was in the elite infantry role and not really special operations in my opinion. Can anyone think of an example?
Would Operation Gunnerside count? It's the raid on the Norsk Hydro Vemork plant.
Also: I don't know for sure, I would have to dig up some reference, but I would wager that British covert teams operating in the Balkans as well as in the Greek islands had to do some rock climbing.
-Mr Arlington Beech
I agree the Balkans and the Greek islands (like in the movie) are our best bets.
An entertaining video on Stalin's main spy in Japan, one of the few cases of spies who probably changed history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn9NyRfbSOo
Needless to say that it only took 7 minutes for control to be retaken by the elite force. Job well done -{
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-elite-sbs-troops-seized-22905622
Can you imagine when they got the call?
'Right lads, you're being deployed? '
'Where too? Afghanistan? Libya? '
'30 minutes down the road ... just take the car'
Brilliant work by our special forces as per -{
"How was your day, luv?" "We got deployed!" "WHAT!? And here you are, back already, now you can deploy the garbage to the bin, dinner's ready"
-Mr Arlington Beech
https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-08-23-this-seemingly-ordinary-farmhouse-in-central-finland-hid-the-secret-of-the-remote-patrolmen---no-one-could-have-guessed-what-kind-of-operation-was-being-prepared-inside-.Hke3r2_l7P.html
Here's another one:
https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-08-15-investigator-s-claim--knight-mannerheim-made-secret-reconnaissance-trips-to-the-soviet-union-even-after-the-wars.SJzgqydHMw.html
-Mr Arlington Beech
https://www.koreaboo.com/stories/assassination-tools-used-north-korean-spies-puts-james-bond-shame/
This year an unknown novel written by the legendary WWII SOE agent Max Manus will be published. He wrote it in 1948,but decided not to publish it because of the controversial content. The story is set after the war and the main character is the fictional Freddy. He was in the resistance and was a "Rottejeger" ("rat hunter", the term used about people who. assassinated torturers, Gestapo informeres and other dispicable people). Freddy struggle to return to society and normal life and suffer from what we now know as PTSD. Manus himself never was a "rat hunter", but he knew very well agents who were. Max Manus died in 1996 and only his family knew of the novel. Manus published his autobiography in two parts a few years after the war ("It tends to go well" and "It gets serious"). He was a born story teller and the books sold very well. A shortened version of the books was published in English with the title "Underwater saboteur". I look forward to reading his novel "Rottejegeren" ("The Rat Hunter").