Mopsi Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Captain Allan Mann was a Swede fighting during WW 2. He fought in Finland and Norway. In A Commando Royal Marines during the Dieppe Raid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mopsi Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 Allan aged 18 in service with the Swedish Voluntary Corps in Finland March 1940. He was message runner for the Chief Operations Officer, Captain (Later General) Malcolm Murray. Later that year 1940 he fought in the Narvik Campaign aged 19. In June 1940 he was awarded the French Légion d´Honneur for saving the life of a French Officer at Hundalen Railway Stn east of Narvik. On this occasion Allan was injured by grenade shrapnels. In 1941 he was invalided out of the Swedish Army but joined British SOE as a secret agent in nazi-ockupied Norway. Picture: Allan as a volunteer in Finland March 1940. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mopsi Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 Allan made 52 secret missions in ockupied Norway. Picture: Faked ID used by Allan Mann disguised as "Ole Blytt Olsen" when operating in Norway. In 1941 he went to Great Britain and joined A Commando Royal Marines and participating in the Dieppe Raid. He later joined No 1 Norwegian Independant Company (NORIC) and got parachute training. In 1944 he joined Norwegian-born USAAF Colonel Bernt Balchen and made two parachute drops under combat conditions in the northern part of Norway (Finmark). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mopsi Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 Allan (right) with his close friend LtCol Knut "Bonzo" Haukelid (Heroes of Telemark). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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