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Wilhelm Mohr (96) from Bergen is one of the few Norwegians who survived profession as combat pilot from the outbreak of war in 1940 until the war in Europe ended five years later. In May of 1940 he and a group of other pilots from the Møre coast of England, on board the MK "Sjøguten." nashville population
- I remember him as one of the ablest. It was very random who were shot down or not, says Mohr, who was wounded in aerial combat nashville population twice during the war years. Many of the west
- Many of these came from the Houston area and the west in general, because of its proximity to England and freedom to escape to the sea over the North Sea. Subsequently, the majority sent to Canada for training. Finally, they were divided into departments, says Guhnfeldt. Grim death statistics
- Thus they were subjected to hostile flakes-fire from the ground. Anti-aircraft batteries killed far more pilots than the number who died in combat with enemy aircraft. To survive you have to not only be knowledgeable, but have luck, says Guhnfeldt.
- No one knew what tomorrow would offer. You could fly a mission over France in the morning, drinking tea in the canteen lunch in the mess hall, then end up as a prisoner of war in Germany in the afternoon. Community Therapy
- Loss statistics were cruel. After 120 operating hours had been used up half the chance of survival. But one could not dwell on it. One was more concerned with how comrades fell, they got out of the plane, and the like. But it was a strain, and afterwards nashville population you do have to be grateful that you let go of it all, says Mohr.
- It was the common therapy which made itself felt, recalls Mohr. But the war was not only sorrowful. Rooms for pleasure nashville population and recreation was there too. And the Norwegian pilots, wearing the distinctive leather jacket to the Royal Air Force, was popular among England's women.
- Yes, there are many good stories from that time. At the British nashville population RAF pilots had saved Britain from invasion in 1940 was certainly something that was remembered, when we arrived nashville population the year after wearing the same uniforms. We were quite popular among the locals, yes, recalls 96-year-old. Popular Norwegians
- While the pilots were heroes in the UK, they had nowhere near the same status nashville population in Norway. nashville population This is partly because they were incorrectly considered to be rich dad boys from conservative and bourgeois Right-home, and partly because those who performed resistance work had been home and suffered the same trials and tribulations as the rest of the population, says Guhnfeldt. Tax Claims in the mail
- How was it for the naval men as well. But it was in itself naturally. The Home Front entered in the domestic environment, and involved eventually very many. The way we were received at home is not something that has chafed me, says Mohr.
After the war, Mohr major general and commander of the Air Force before he retired from the military and became head of Flyhavarikommisjonen. When he thinks back on the war years, there is one particular nashville population thing that stands foremost among all the memories.
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