The German occupation of Norway began when they invaded the neutral country on 9 May 1940, and the country remained under Wehrmacht rule until 8 May 1945. The government and King Haakon VII had escaped and formed a government in exile in London, whilst their home country was ruled by the ‘puppet’ government of Vidkun Quisling. Many Norwegians fought in the resistance or as part of the Free Norwegian Forces, including the establishment of the Royal Norwegian Air Force in 1944. The fortitude and bravery of the Norwegian people is surely exemplified by the struggles hundreds of intrepid, detemined souls endured to escape and find their way to the Island of Last Hope where they could continue the fight against their homeland's occupiers. We salute the bravery of Norway's finest! Germany's hold on the country was prised from its brutal fist on 8 May 1945 and five days later Crown Prince Olav and five government ministers returned. The rest of the royal family returned on 7 June 1945, five years to the day since the King and Queen had been forced to leave.

A prime source for some of the material in this database is the extraordinary site Våre Falne - de Norske Ofrene (Our Fallen - the Norwegian Victims). This unique memorial effort attempts to capture the story of every Norwegian who died during the German occupation - every man, woman and child. We thank them for permission to use selected extracts from their material.
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#	Name*	First Names	Title	Rank	RAF Equivalent Rank	Service No.	Photo (Click to Expand)	Born	Commemorated	Nationality	Role	Awards	Air Force	Command	Unit	DateofIncident *See Note	Aircraft	Type	Serial	Code	Victories (Fighters)	Base	Time	Mission	Incident	Fate	Referring Database	Notes	Links/Archive Reports
1	Bergsland	Per		*Sjt.				Bærum 1918-01-17		Norway	Pilot	MC	RNoAF	Fighter Command	332Sqn Norwegian	1942-08-19	SPITFIRE	V	AB269	AH-D		North Weald	06.20 - unk	Dieppe Raid	Failed To Return GERMAN A/C, FRANCE Fw190, Crash near Dieppe	PoW. Died 1992-06-09		Pilot bailed out. Pilot later successfully escaped, 'The Great Escape' 25-03-1944. Per Bergsland served as an instructor at flight school in Canada before he transferred to the RAF Ferry Command, where he was assigned to fly with a combat unit. As a member of 332Sqn stationed at North Weald airfield, Bergsland's Spitfire Mk.Vb AB269 was shot down by a German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 during the Dieppe Raid on 19 August 1942. After arriving at the POW camp, he gave his name as 'Peter Rockland' (Per = Petrus, meaning rock in Greek, and Berg meaning mountain or rock in Norwegian), in order to protect his family in Norway from German persecution. In what later became known as The Great Escape, he was escapee #43 among the 76 prisoners of war who managed to escape from the camp via tunnel with another Norwegian pilot, escapee #44 Jens Müller. 'Bergsland was wearing a civilian suit he had made for himself from a Royal Marine uniform, with an RAF overcoat slightly altered with brown leather sewn over the buttons. A black RAF tie, no hat. He carried a small suitcase which had been sent from Norway. In it were Norwegian toothpaste and soap, sandwiches, and 163 reichsmarks given to him by the Escape Committee. We caught the 2:04 train to Frankfurt an der Oder. Our papers stated that we were Norwegian electricians from the Arbeitslager [labor camp] in Frankfurt working in the vicinity of Sagan. For the journey from Frankfurt to Stettin we had other papers ordering us to change our place of work from Frankfurt to Stettin, and to report to the Birgermeister of Stettin.' Bergsland and Müller made it to the nearby town of Sagan, where they caught a train to Stettin in Germany (now: Szczecin, Poland). At the port, the pair were snuck onto a neutral Swedish ship by friendly sailors and made it to the safety of Gothenburg. There, they entered the British consulate, who arranged travel by train to Stockholm, where they were flown to Scotland from the Bromma airport. From there they were sent by train to London and shortly afterwards to 'Little Norway' in Canada. See AB269 Liby Signed Cover	The Great Escape Wikipedia Bio
2	Jacobsen	Karl Theodor 'Kai'		Ltn.		N27		1916-06-01 Ennebak	Akershus Fortress	Norway	Pilot		RNoAF	Fighter Command	331Sqn Norwegian	1942-06-19	SPITFIRE	V	BL637	FN-Y		North Weald	10:15	Roadsted	Failed To Return GERMAN A/C, BE-NE.LX II. / JG1, Crash area Vlissingen	Killed MIA		JACOBSEN, KARL (KAI) THEODOR, lieutenant, Enebakk. Born 1 July 1916 in Enebakk, p. By Karl Jacobsen and Thekla Viktoria. Married 1941 in London to Sonja Elisabeth Irgens. Artium, officers' school, war school, flight school. Before the war he was a lieutenant in the Army Air Force. Went to England at the beginning of the war and was for a time a teacher at the flight school in Canada. On June 19, 1942, he crashed during a battle with German planes over the English Channel. Mentioned in Verdens Gang 18 July 1945< br> Takeoff at 10:15 hrs for a Roadstead operation – dive bombing and low level attacks on enemy ships at sea or in harbour - in the Oostende (Belgium) - Vlissingen (Zeeland) area. The aircraft was bounced by a Focke-Wulf Fw 190A of the 6./JG 1 based at Woensdrecht airfield. Claimants on this morning were Unteroffizier Flecks, Unteroffizier Brakebusch, Oberfeldwebel Ehlers & Leutnant Leonhardt. Akershus Fortress, Norway Marriage to Sonja Irgens June 1941 Some records have his name as Jakob Martiniius Jacobsen In 1940 towns were encouraged to raise money to buy their 'own' Spitfire. Stone was just one such town to rise to the challenge with residents organising events which soon raised the £5,000 needed for a brand new Spitfire Vb straight from the factory at Castle Bromwich. The name ‘Star of Stone’ was selected at the final meeting of Stone Rural Spitfire Committee. The local story goes that the Spitfire was so named because the fundraising discussions were held at semi-official headquarters – The Star Inn. Meanwhile Flight Lieutenant Jacobsen had escaped with the Norwegian king on a British destroyer in 1940 as their homeland fell to the invading Germans, and he became one of the Norwegian pilots formed into 331 Squadron in July 1941. The Star of Stone Spitfire was allocated to the squadron. Jacobsen was flying the aircraft on a fighter sweep near the Nazi-occupied coast of Europe on June 19, 1942, when he and his colleagues became embroiled in a protracted dogfight with the Luftwaffe. As he went to help another Norwegian Spitfire flown by Second Lieutenant Jens Einar Muller, his plane was jumped. The operations log simply said: 'Missing, down in flames.' Jacobsen left a widow, Sonja, whom he had married a year previously. Courtesy Express & Star, Wolverhampton
3	Müller	Jens		*Fnr.						Norway	Pilot		RNoAF	Fighter Command	331Sqn Norwegian	1941-08-27	HURRICANE	II	Z5145	FN-D		Catterick		Training	Cat E? Accident, BRITAIN Collision Air, Crash Lybister, Caithness	Safe		Bailed out See AR298
4	Müller	Jens Einar		Fnr.	2nd Lt	N1107		1917-11-30		Norway	Pilot	MC	RNoAF	Fighter Command	331Sqn Norwegian	1942-06-19	SPITFIRE	V	AR298	FN-N		North Weald	11:35	Roadsted	Failed To Return GERMAN A/C, BE-NE.LX II. / JG1, Crashed into sea off Belgian coast Westerschelde estuary off the southwestern coast of Walcheren, Zeeland	PoW		One of only 3 men to escape in The Great Escape Operation - Roadstead (dive bombing and low level attacks on enemy ships at sea or in harbour) in the Oostende (Belgium) - Vlissingen (Zeeland) area. After running out of ammunition his aircraft was critically damaged by fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Hans Ehlers, who was flying a Focke-Wulf Fw 190A of the 6./JG 1 based at Woensdrecht airfield - (claim) 'Spitfire' / SW Walcheren. Pilot / 1007 2nd Lt Jens Einer Müller RNorAF (Washed up coast of Belgium after 66 hrs) PoW. Involved in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft 3 Zagan & Belaria. He was one of those who was lucky and made it to Sweden. Müller with a 331Sqn Hawker Hurricane at RAF Skeabrae in Orkney in 1941	The Great Escape Wikipedia Bio

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