Operation Martin

When

Mar 1943

Kind

Military operation

Deaths

11

Coordinates

70.05° N, 18.78° E

Description

1943 military operation

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1943 Allied clandestine operation in Norway

Operation Martin (Red) was an Allied clandestine operation of the Second World War to destroy a German airfield control tower at Bardufoss and organise secret military resistance groups in Tromsø in German-occupied Norway in 1943. The operation consisted of twelve Norwegians of the Company Linge group, who had been trained by the British in Scotland and returned to Norway in March 1943.

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