Off the road along the lake (follow signs for Minnesmarke).

An inscribed gray marble piece mounted to a pedestal and includes an information sign.

The marker (Minnessten) remembers a team of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Norso Group members who were inadvertently parachuted by “Operation Carpetbagger” (8^th Air Force- 856th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group) mission into neutral Sweden on March 25, 1945.  The team landed on the frozen Landösjön lake (near the marker); the team was supposed to land in Norway to support Operation Rype.  The team was detained by Swedish authorities and after a short time, allowed to go to Norway where they participated in the successful Operation in north Trondelag, Norway. 

Operation Rype was an OSS Mission led by Major William Colby (later a Director of the CIA) the Leader of the OSS Norwegian Operation Group which included teams Norso I & II with the mission of impeding the redeployment of 350,000 enemy forces from Norway to Germany in 1945. The OSS Team was partially recruited from the 99th Infantry Battalion (Sep) (Norway) who formed the core of the OSS Norwegian Operation group; the OSS was a precursor to the present day CIA. Operation Rype (Grouse) was very successful despite the loss of two aircraft which crashed trying to parachute additional operatives into Norway.

The text on the Marker is written in English and reads: 

The following members

 of the OSS NORSO Group 

landed here by parachute

 at 0200 hours 

on March 25 1945:

T/Sgt Leif Oistad

 Cpl Knut Andreasen 

T/5 Tom Rusdal 

T/5 Sivert Windh 

T/5 Eddie Hovland. 

They later reached Norway 

to take part in the

 liberation of North Trondelag.