Seeking any information/pictures of Major Arne Austeen.
Austeen was born 1911 in Norway, he appears to be an only child.
Austeen was an engineer before the war, working for a time period in the town of Gjøvik. From what I understand he is from Frogn, Norway originally.
Austeen flew for several squadrons during the war;
124
332
64
611
331 (squadron leader) (flew MH828 FN-Y)
126 (squadron leader)
He was shot down by U-155 and crashed into the sea north of Kiel harbour flying RAF Mustang III KH 578 out of Bentwaters, Suffolk on escort for B-17 bombers.
Coordinates: 54`55N 10`07E
No trace of either pilot or airplane.
Last, just a general question. If I want to locate Major Austeen’s combat reports and such, where do I go? Hendon?
By: DCK - 21st July 2009 at 21:51
This is a zombie thread now, but instead of creating a new one, I’d just inform you here that the article was finished and translated into english yesterday afternoon. For anyone interested! Link is in my signature at the bottom.
By: mhuxt - 29th January 2008 at 10:29
Hmmm.
Works from over at the 12 O’Clock High site. (http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=5448&page=2)
http://presentations.uib.no/pls/portal/NAFA.Y_TABELL_910.show
See if that works now – works OK from my end.
By: DCK - 29th January 2008 at 10:02
Thank you! This will come in quite handy!
Norwegian Squadron ORBs here:
This link didn’t work unfortenately.
By: mhuxt - 28th January 2008 at 23:00
Combat reports are here:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/ww2aircombat.asp
Search on Austeen. Three-and-a-half quid per file, but in some cases there’s several reports in a single file.
Norwegian Squadron ORBs here:
http://presentations.uib.no/pls/port…ABELL_910.show
His activities on 331 and 332 should be in there.
There’s a World War II in Norway forum over here:
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January 28, 2008 at 10:34 pm