Norwegian Squadrons – Any Books?

FWIW his name was Leif Lind Pettersen, and he apparently had lived in Guatemala for many years. He died in 1977.

Harald

Harald,

I have found out -but do not have any proof yet – that the country of Guatemala also donated a PT-26 to the Little Norway group.

If you ever come across such information, please let me know.

Saludos,

Tulio

Two of the Cornells in “Little Norway” was called “Guatemala I” and “Guatemala II”

At least the first one was payed for by funds raised/gathered by the norwegian consul-general in Guatemala.
The tailnumber on “Guatemala I” was 221, but the number on “Guatemala II” is unknown.

Information from “Warbirds of Norway newsletter 16.1”

Harald,

I have found out -but do not have any proof yet – that the country of Guatemala also donated a PT-26 to the Little Norway group.

If you ever come across such information, please let me know.

Saludos,

Tulio

What a wonderful community. Thank you all for responding. It looks like I will have to brush up on my Norwegian. I spoke it well enough as a child, but I never really learned to read it. If I can sound the words out in my head, though, I’ll be OK.

JDK: It is true that very little has been done in the way of historical preservation or commemoration with regard to Little Norway. I am not aware of anything at all in Toronto, and efforts to build a small museum in Muskoka, the second home of Little Norway, seem to be stalled for lack of funding. You might want to take a look at the following websites:

http://www.emb-norway.ca/norwaycanada/littlenorway/
http://www.muskokaairport.com/little_norway.htm

According to a couple of other websites, some 600 pilots were trained in Little Norway, of whom 270 survived the war. I posted scans of a few pages from a wartime picture book entitled “‘Little Norway’ in pictures, RNAF in Canada” a couple of months ago, but it didn’t seem to pique anyone’s interest, so I let it drop. Scattered throughout are photos of various RNoAF aircraft, including a pretty good one of the Northrop float planes that were stationed in Iceland, a bunch of Cornells that were purchased with donations from Mexico, from Argentina and Uruguay, from Danish-Americans, from Minnesotans, etc., and a lot of photos of people; pilots, officers, ground crew, the Norwegian royal family, members of the government in exile, Canadian dignitaries, and on and on (and on and on – you know how Norwegians are). If anyone is interested in any of this stuff, let me know.

Again, thanks to all who responded to my request.

Harald

What I have in my shelfs:
(They are all in norwegian I’m afraid…..)

“Nattjager” written by Cato Guhnfeldt, published by “Wings forlag”
About Tarald Weisten ISBN 82-992194-8-5 RECOMMENDED!

“En av de mange” biography by Kristian Nyerrød, published by “Tankestreken AS” ISBN 82-993535-0-5 RECOMMENDED!

“Høk over høk” biography by norwegian top scoring ace Svein Heglund, published by “Wings forlag ISBN 82-992194-2-6

“En krigsflyvers dagbok” biography by Fridtjov S. Giørtz (76 sqd), published by “Wings forlag” ISBN 82-992194-5-0

“Gjennom ild og vann for frihet” biography by Carl Ludvig Larsen (76 sqd)published by “Skywards forlag” ISBN 82-995570-0-3

“Spitfire-Norsk jagerflyger i kamp” biography by Birger Tidemand-
Johannessen, published by “Orion dokumentar” ISBN 82-458-0481-9
“Orion dokumentar”
For Birgers books you could also try Dakota Norway

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Found it!

http://forum.airpics.com/ Try posting a message on the Flyhistorisk forum (historical aviation forum)

One of the foremost Norwegian aviation historians is Björn Hafsten. PM me if you need his e-mail address.

Regards,

Jan

Harald,

The Norsk Luftfartsmuseum (Norwegian Air Museum) at Bodö might be able to assist you. The museum’s URL is : www.luftfart.museum.no and email : [email]flymuseum@luftfart.museum.no[/email]

There’s a Norwegian historical aviation forum on the ‘net as well. I’ll try to find asap.

More later,

Jan

Further to my earlier e mail – I still had the e mail from the embassy in my in -box.
Suggested reading is
Vera Hendriksen: Luftforsvarets historie Vol 2, Oso (Aschehoug) 1996

Fredrik Meyer: Haerens og marinens flyvevapen 1912-1945, Oslo Gydenhal 1973

Useful contacts:

Major Roar Glenne of the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum
[email]rglenne@mil.no[/email]
Ivar Kraglund (Senior researcher) at same place
[email]ikraglund@mil.no[/email]
Tel: 00 47 23 09 31 36 / fax 00 47 23 09 31 37

OG

While I was in Toronto a couple of years ago, I was disappointed at how little there was on the Little Norway training bases there. I was researching different stuff, but I’m sure if you were to contact the Canadian Warplane Heritage, Canadian National Archives and Canadian Aviation Museum you may well get a good idea of what there is in English on the unit’s training activities. They do get a mention in some of the Empire Air Training Scheme books.

Don’t know if that’s of help / interest…

That’s a very good link Paul. Thank you!

You can download a scanned version of the ORB’s for these Squadrons from here!

http://presentations.uib.no/pls/portal/!NAFA.Y_TABELL_910.show

Does anyone know if there are any books specifically about the Norwegian Squadrons (330, 331, 332, 333) in WW II? How about memoirs by any of the Norwegians in the RAF?

Harald

Harald, I have details of where you can dig out the info if you can wait a week or so as its at my daughters house. These squadrons formed part of the Norwegian 88 (Liberation) Group and were at RAF Turnhouse at one point hence my interest. The defence attache at the Embassy here gave me 2 x contacts in Norway but all my requests came to nothing.
Speaking Norwegian would help I think. The books I was told about are in Norwegian.
OG