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Voluntary parachute training had started as early as June 1941, when 16 men attended British Army parachute school at Ridgeway outside Manchester. During the following year, 80 volunteers qualified. When the Norwegian Brigade was reorganised, a separate parachute company under captain Edward Dycker was formed 25th April 1942.*
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In June/July 1942, 50 men from the company led by captain Dycker partcipated in Operation Gearbox 1, the rescue operation for the Svalbard Garrison.*
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The company was in periods attached to British para units: November 1942 - March 1943 attached to 2nd Parachute Brigade of 1st Airborne Division, June 1943 - September 1943 attached to 6th Airborne Division as Independent Parachute Company, from April 1944 again attached to 1st Airborne Division in two periods.  The Parachute Company was the only unit of the brigade that was disposed for operational duty outside Norway and the United Kingdom. When British requests for employing the company with 1st Airborne was turned down by Norwegian authorities not once, but twice, sources describe the men's frustration as enormous: "morale was at the breaking point".*
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On the 24th of March 1945, a group of 12 men led by major Ole Jacob Bangstad were dropped at Borgefjell in Nord-Trondelag, Norway. They performed sabotage against the Nordlandsbanen railway, to prevent German troop transports to the continental war theatre.*