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WFSt/Op (L)
Fuehrer's Headquarters November 21, 1942
5 copies, 5th copy
Subject: Landing of British Freight Gliders in Norway. [Illegible signature] 2/40/43
Note
Supplement to situation report OKW/WFSt/Op. 21 Nov. 42.
Air Force 5, G-2 Capt. S. Lilienskjold reports 21 Nov. by telephone to inquiry:
1. Following supplementary report is made about landing of a British freight glider at Hegers in the night of November 11:
a. No firing on the part of German defense.
b. The towing plane (Wellington) has crashed after touching the ground, 7 man crew dead. The attached freight glider also crashed, of the 17-man crew 14 alive. Indisputably a sabotage force. Fuehrer order has been carried out.
2. In the same night a second freight glider landed East of Stavanger. 3 men of the crew were captured by the Norwegian police on November 21. They state that after it was detached the freight glider made a crash-landing at the Lyse Fjord in the night of Nov. 20; it had a crew of 16. Supposedly several dead and wounded. The landing occurred on the North shore of the Fjord, opposite the electric plant of Floerly (supplies Stavanger).
The plane has not yet been found. Each and every possible measure to find it and also to seize the other members of the crew has been initiated by the service district.