Catalogue description Ernest Kirkeby JACOBSEN: Norwegian. JACOBSEN, an SOE agent, was landed in Norway in...

Ernest Kirkeby JACOBSEN: Norwegian. JACOBSEN, an SOE agent, was landed in Norway in March 1942 to set up W/T communications for a sabotage group in Ostfold, Norway. He was arrested in August of the same year, but his communications continued with his limited co-operation. He was released in September 1942 and lived at home with his wife in the expectation, on the Germans' part, that other agents might try to contact him. In January 1943 he escaped to Sweden and thence to the UK. He freely admitted his co-operation with the Germans and emphasised that he had no mission for the Germans in this country. He later joined the Norwegian Air Force