The Golden U-Boat

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The author wishes to thank Karl Ivar Bjornsen and the rest of the members of NUEX. Without your sharing of the “Norwegian experience,” this book wouldn’t have been possible.

The footpath was little more than a narrow, earthen track that led from the rail yard into a thick birch forest.

Mikhail Kuznetsov first spotted it late the previous afternoon. They were still busy moving into their temporary barracks at that time, and he was forced to postpone any exploration of this promising trail until some free time presented itself. The opportunity came the very next morning.

The twenty-one-year old, newly commissioned junior lieutenant awoke long before reveille. There was a slight chill to the air as he slipped off his hard, straw mattress and headed for the latrine. The hut they had just moved into was normally reserved for railroad workers. Far from being luxurious, it was simply constructed out of native timber, but at least had indoor plumbing.

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