Norwegian Planning Continues
While we rested at "Little Canada", Nilsen and Einar were very active. On arriving home Einar had quite a scare. He learned that a stranger had arrived at his parents' home, pretending to be a Government agent. The stranger claimed that he had information indicating that Einar knew the whereabouts of our crew. On hearing that Einar was not at home, he left, stating that he would return the following day. The stranger arrived the next day in company of an acquaintance of Einar. He told Einar that he knew that Einar had helped us and that he too wanted to help. He suggested to Einar that he divulge our location to him, that he had a boat available off the Norwegian coast, and would be able have the crew transported back to England. Einar disclaimed all knowledge of the crew and insisted the man leave.
Nilsen, after leaving us at "Little Canada" hurried to Bergen where he contacted the radio operator, Gunnar Wiig Andersen. For a few days, hurried radio messages passed back and forth across the North Sea between Gunnar Wiig Andersen and the Scandinavian section of SOE. Nilsen finally was able to satisfy the authorities that he was in contact with our crew. The fact that he had mentioned that the crew consisted of three radio operators, and one was named "Red", turned the trick for him. He, in an attempt to obtain much needed weapons and ammunition, thought that during the passing of messages relating to our crew it would be a good opportunity to ask for more weapons. He did so, asking for a ton of weapons and ammunition for each of us.
He left Bergen, having made arrangements for a our crew to attempt to meet with a ship, that was coming from the Shetlands to drop off supplies for the resistance movement. The incoming ship was to arrive at a specific time, land their supplies and leave. We just had to arrive during the short period of time it took them to do so.
He returned to Os, as preparations had to be made to move us from "Little Canada" to an area nearer to the scheduled rendezvous point. The Norwegian News segment of the BBC news would carry two messages. The first, "Keep the meatballs warm", to come twenty four hours before we were to be at the rendezvous point. The second, "It rains in the mountains", to be sent the same evening the boat would be there. Nilsen and the group at Os worked on the plan for our eventual move to the coast. The news came sooner than expected, but they were prepared.
While we rested at "Little Canada", Nilsen and Einar were very active. On arriving home Einar had quite a scare. He learned that a stranger had arrived at his parents' home, pretending to be a Government agent. The stranger claimed that he had information indicating that Einar knew the whereabouts of our crew. On hearing that Einar was not at home, he left, stating that he would return the following day. The stranger arrived the next day in company of an acquaintance of Einar. He told Einar that he knew that Einar had helped us and that he too wanted to help. He suggested to Einar that he divulge our location to him, that he had a boat available off the Norwegian coast, and would be able have the crew transported back to England. Einar disclaimed all knowledge of the crew and insisted the man leave.
Nilsen, after leaving us at "Little Canada" hurried to Bergen where he contacted the radio operator, Gunnar Wiig Andersen. For a few days, hurried radio messages passed back and forth across the North Sea between Gunnar Wiig Andersen and the Scandinavian section of SOE. Nilsen finally was able to satisfy the authorities that he was in contact with our crew. The fact that he had mentioned that the crew consisted of three radio operators, and one was named "Red", turned the trick for him. He, in an attempt to obtain much needed weapons and ammunition, thought that during the passing of messages relating to our crew it would be a good opportunity to ask for more weapons. He did so, asking for a ton of weapons and ammunition for each of us.
He left Bergen, having made arrangements for a our crew to attempt to meet with a ship, that was coming from the Shetlands to drop off supplies for the resistance movement. The incoming ship was to arrive at a specific time, land their supplies and leave. We just had to arrive during the short period of time it took them to do so.
He returned to Os, as preparations had to be made to move us from "Little Canada" to an area nearer to the scheduled rendezvous point. The Norwegian News segment of the BBC news would carry two messages. The first, "Keep the meatballs warm", to come twenty four hours before we were to be at the rendezvous point. The second, "It rains in the mountains", to be sent the same evening the boat would be there. Nilsen and the group at Os worked on the plan for our eventual move to the coast. The news came sooner than expected, but they were prepared.