1918 Erfurt

[Balder]

Originally posted by jkirkthomas
Just in case anyone is interested, there is (or was in the early 80's) an SOE Club in London. Balder, I'm sure you must know about it.

Kirk

Kirk,

I guess you mean the Special Forces Club in Herbert Crescent, London; I've never been there. The Norwegian "Linge-klubben", its counterpart here, was actually dissolved last year due to the members' age. It consisted of surviving members of "Norwegian Independent Company No. 1", AKA the "Linge Company" after its founder Martin Linge. They still get together though. They used to have an annual assembly with shooting competitions up until the 1990's - these gentlemen had not forgotten their wartime skills. Too bad that the lessons from WW2 seem to be rapidly and wilfully erased from the collective western mind.

The picture shows some seemingly merry members of the Linge Company/SOE operation "Feather II" in 1944 with some of their guns. The gentleman on the left is holding a Luger and an M1911A1 (or an M1903 Colt, hard to tell) in addition to the Krag-J�¸rgensen M1894 rifle resting on his knee. Also present are an M1928 Thompson and a second Krag-J�¸rgensen - and a bottle of wine on the table.

Respectfully,

Balder