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Norse Escaper To LindsborgWiH Be Guest Of Dr. PihlbiadLindsborg—A Norwegian youth, who escaped from Nazi clutches In Norway, crossing the North sea in a fishing boat to England, andthen was sent io Canada Ho train as a pilot for the Norwegian Royal Air Force* will visit in Linds-borg Monday and Tuesday.Accompanied by Lt. Nils Milen, also one of the Norwegian nir force* he is enroute from the Pacific coafct to New York.The Norwegian pilot, known only as “Andreas”, which is not his real name, remains incognito because if the Nazis back .in Norway were to find, out about him it would go hard with his mother and other relatives in the home town.It was last July that six Norwegian youths escaped from their town, making their way to the coast, There they joined twelve others, They stole a 30-foot fishing boat from the Germans and during the darkness pushed off forEngland. They had one narrow escape when a Nazi plane flew c/cv them, but they had fishing tackle and nets ready, and were busy fishing, and the Nazis left them alone, thinking they were fishermen,It was three days before they reached safety in England, All * twelve are now pilots, ready to fly : bock to Norway and help drive ; the Nazis out,“Andreas”, who speaks English, ! will tell his story at a meeting In 1 Presser hall here Tuesday night. 1 The Lindsborg high school band 1 will play. He will be a guest here o! Dr. Ernst W. Pihlbiad, who Is j chairman of the “Wings for Nor- \ wav movement. in KanK^c ■
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Hutchinson News
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sun, Aug 09, 1942
Page 13
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