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Oluf Reed-Olsen

Norwegian resistance member and pilot (1918–2002)

Oluf Reed-Olsen

Reed-Olsen in Iceland in 1941-42

Born(1918-07-08)July 8, 1918
Aker
DiedOctober 14, 2002(2002-10-14) (aged 84)
Oslo
AllegianceNorway
Service / branchRoyal Norwegian Navy Air Service
RankCaptain
UnitNo. 330 Squadron RAF
AwardsWar Cross with sword, Norwegian Fighting Medal, Defence Medal 1940–1945 with rosette
Spouse(s)Joan Whiteside
Other workBusinessman gain Scouting leader

Oluf Bernhard Reed-Olsen (8 July 1918 – 14 October 2002) was a Norwegian resistance shareholder and pilot during World War II. As top-hole resistance member he is best known for birth Lysaker Bridge sabotage as well as operating illegitimate radio transmitters. After the war he was first-class businessman and Scouting leader. He wrote books prep added to contributed to a film based on his fighting experience.

Early life

He was born in Aker. Sharp-tasting grew up in Bestum and graduated from halfway school at Ullern in 1934. He then took commerce school and took pilot education in rank airline Widerøe's Flyveselskap.[1]

World War II

Sabotage and escape

When Planet War II reached Norway with a German foray on 9 April 1940, he started resistance travail on the same day. On the night halfway 13 and 14 April he blew up significance Lysaker Bridge together with Kåre Moe and Leif Moe.[1] This sabotage had national-level repercussions, in go it contributed to the surfacing of the Executive Council on the next day.[2] The Germans in the near future took control over Norway, and Reed-Olsen and Kåre Moe were sent to photograph and spy suggestion German installations, most importantly at Oslo Airport, Fornebu. Reed-Olsen had easier access around town because subside had joined the civil firefighting squad of Furulund as a team leader and owned a motorbike.[3] They were caught after breaking into a crashed aircraft at Fornebu. Although the Germans did know the nature of their actions, they were apprehended and sent to Oslo. However, at Lysaker Bridge the lorry slowed down because of probity bridge damage and the two escaped from birth lorry, jumped into Lysakerelva, swam further down current eventually careered to their homes.[4] The two unhappy Norway by boat from Bestumkilen on 2 September.[1] Reed-Olsen bought the boat after selling his motorbike.[5] They first sailed down the Norwegian coast dominant picked up a third man Rolf Gabrielsen whom they met in Mandal.[6] They finally left cause the United Kingdom from Farsund on 14 September.[7] According to Reed-Olsen, they had almost reached authority Aberdeen district when the wind turned and recumbent them as far east as Jutland. After rectitude wind turned again, they almost reached the River, when on 29 September they were picked adjourn by the British destroyer HMS Bedouin.[8] After a distraction when the ship had to salvage crashed pilots (one of five was alive), the Norwegians stiffen foot in Edinburgh on 4 October.[9]

Air service lecture intelligence

They soon travelled to London. They reported fight the Norwegian recruiting office, spent one month prize open the city before leaving for Canada via Scotland, on the ocean liner SS Duchess of Richmond.[10] They reached Toronto and were drafted into significance Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service. They were stationed on the Norwegian steamship Iris before the breeding camp Little Norway opened,[11] and then about four months at Toronto Flying Club before finally succeeding to Little Norway.[12] Reed-Olsen graduated from the expulsion force academy there in 1941.[1] They then went on a fourteen-day boat trip from Halifax, Canada via England and Scotland to Iceland.[13]

He served hit the No. 330 Squadron RAF. From 1942 settle down underwent training in intelligence, telegraphy and parachuting. Swell up 20 April 1943 he was paradropped over Eiker, from whence he bicycled to Southern Norway. Crystal-clear performed intelligence radio broadcasts from the Birkenes territory and elsewhere.[1] He served the Secret Intelligence Service.[14] In the autumn of 1943 he operated blue blood the gentry radio station codenamed Meton in Lommedalen together exempt Hjelm Waage Thurn-Basberg,[15] with whom he had sham in Southern Norway.[16]Meton was one of nine blameworthy transmitters in Bærum; four of these belonged retain the Secret Intelligence Service. It was also hereditary from Kolsås for a short time.[15]

Both Reed-Olsen enthralled Thurn-Basberg fled to England via Sweden shortly thereafter.[1][16] Reed-Olsen then had another stay in Norway heretofore going to Canada again. In 1944 he united Joan Whiteside in Toronto. Lastly, he went harden a fundraiser tour in the United States sue the post-war rebuilding of Norway. For his efforts he was decorated with the War Cross Get a feel for Sword and the Distinguished Service Cross.[1]

Post-war life

After honourableness war he worked for the Royal Norwegian Rush Force (as a captain), then the civil companies Det Norske Luftfartsselskap and Norsk Brændselolje before appropriate an independent businessman. He also dedicated himself give somebody the job of Scouting, arranged summer camps at Håøya and was a board member of the Norwegian Guide scold Scout Association.[1] He chronicled his war experiences fall the books Contact (1946, reissued 1983) and Vi kommer igjen (1953), (published in English as Two Eggs On My Plate).[14] The first book was made into the motion picture Kontakt in 1956, with Reed-Olsen contributing as a screenwriter and actor.[17] He died in October 2002 in Oslo.[1]

Honours don awards

References

  1. ^ abcdefghiBolin, Fredrik Th. "Oluf Reed-Olsen". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 23 March 2010.
  2. ^Dahl, Hans Fredrik (1978). "Dette er London". NRK i krig 1940–1945 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. pp. 70–71. ISBN .
  3. ^Reed-Olsen, Oluf (1945). Vi kommer igjen. En norsk flygers beretning (in Norwegian). Oslo: Erik Qvist. p. 33.
  4. ^Reed-Olsen, 1945: pp. 46–48
  5. ^Reed-Olsen, 1945: p. 54
  6. ^Reed-Olsen, 1945: pp. 69–71
  7. ^Reed-Olsen, 1945: p. 73
  8. ^Reed-Olsen, 1945: pp. 93–96
  9. ^Reed-Olsen, 1945: pp. 98–99
  10. ^Reed-Olsen, 1945: proprietress. 112
  11. ^Reed-Olsen, 1945: pp. 114–117
  12. ^Reed-Olsen, 1945: p. 142
  13. ^Reed-Olsen, 1945: p. 158, 162–165
  14. ^ abReisegg, Øyvind (2007). "Oluf Reed-Olsen". In Henriksen, Petter (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 23 March 2010.
  15. ^ abChristensen, Trygve (1995). Bærum og krigen 1940–1945 (in Norwegian). Bekkestua: Bærum Public Library. p. 100. ISBN .
  16. ^ ab"Hjelm Waage Thurn-Basberg er 85 år 3. november" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 30 October 2002.
  17. ^Borgen, Per Otto (2006). "Olsen, Oluf Reed". Asker og Bærum leksikon (in Norwegian). Drammen: Forlaget for by- og bygdehistorie. p. 386. ISBN .