About 70 persons found refuge in the Norwegian resistance Milorg's district 77 rural huts.
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Towards the end of World War II he was one of the local Milorg leaders in Buskerud (second-in-command in the D16 north district 1612, and leader of the Veggli-Rollag group).
During the German occupation of Norway he took actively part in resistance activities of Milorg D13, the district of Oslo, Bærum and Asker.
In later years, a hypothesis that the Norwegian resistance fighter Kai Holst's sudden death in June 1945 was related to his involvement in the Operation Claw has been put forward by among others the historian Tore Pryser.
She worked as an assistant at the Norwegian Radium Hospital until 1944, when she was hired as a secretary for the leader of Milorg's District 13 based in Norway's capital.