We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance (13 page)

Landfall off Senja: "the coast glittered with a blinding brilliance."

No photograph was ever taken of Bratthom. Andholmen, shown here at anchor in
the harbour of Scalloway, was almost a sister ship.

Toftefjord. Brattholm lay a little farther than this fishing boat. The crew landed on
the beach on the right, and the agents at the far end of the fjord.

The snow gully up which Jan escaped at the head of Toftefjord: on the right, the
beach where Jan landed on the mound which gave him cover.

Jan Baalsrud

The post office at
Bjorneskar.

Bernhard Sorensen of Bjorneskar and his wife.

Kjosen: by the buildings on thre right, a party of German soldiers crossed the road.

The Lyngen Alps above Knosen.

Lyngseidet.

Marius.

Furuflaten: on the right is the school where the German garrison was billeted,
and the steep bank of the river channel below it. Jan was carried across the road
near the bridge on the left.