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Two days before Sønsteby's death, Norwegian Financial Minister Sigbjørn Johnsen unveiled a statue of Sønsteby at Rjukan torg and stated, "Gunnar Sønsteby is a great hero who risked his life so that we could win our freedom and our democracy". [6] Sønsteby died May 10, 2012 at the age of 94 after a long illness. [6]
In 2017, the Gunnar Sønsteby Prize was awarded to all Norwegian veterans of international military operations. This came to over 100,000 persons. [ 3 ] At a ceremony at Fanehallen in Oslo, Sunde, the head of the prize jury, said that the prize was “a tribute to the individual veteran and the effort, personal courage, and sacrifice they have ...
Gunnar Sønsteby (1918–2012), Norwegian World War II resistance fighter; Sven Sønsteby (1933–2014), Norwegian illustrator This page was last edited on 4 October ...
Jonathan Campos, Samuel Lilley, Danasia Elder and Ian Epstein, the crew who died on board American Eagle Flight 5342, have received honorary awards from their airline.
Three hundred love letters written during WWII were discovered in a trunk and tell the story of a forbidden love between two gay men.
A U.S. Army Air Force gunner's remains have been accounted for nearly eight decades after the heavy bomber he was flying in was shot down over France during World War II, military officials said ...
Max Manus: Man of War is a 2008 Norwegian biographical war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (9 December 1914 – 20 September 1996). ). The story follows Manus (Aksel Hennie) from the Winter War against the Soviet Union, through the outbreak of World War II and the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany until peacetime in
Resurrection Statue at the Holy Cross Gravestone of Greta Garbo Uppståndelsekapellet (the Resurrection Chapel), designed by Sigurd Lewerentz Skogskapellet cemetery chapel, designed by Gunnar Asplund Skogskyrkogården came about following an international competition in 1915 for the design of a new cemetery in Enskede in the southern part of ...