Bjarne Øen
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Légion d'honneur  Order of the British Empire |
Bjarne Øen (6 November 1898 – 20 September 1994) was a Norwegian pilot, military officer and Lieutenant General of the
Chief of Defence of Norway from 1957 to 1963.[1]
Biography
Adolf Bjarne Øen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of Ole O. Øen (1860–1927) and Marie Eline Stuve (1873–1964).[2] He graduated from the Norwegian Military Academy in 1920, and from the Norwegian Military College in 1923.[3] From 1923 to 1924, he was a student at Hæren Flight School, where he continued as an instructor until 1925. At the time of the start of World War II, Captain Øen was the airport manager of the newly opened Fornebu Airport outside Oslo.[1][4]
After the
Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany in 1940, he was appointed temporary chief (General Inspector) for Norwegian Army Air Force. When the Norwegian Army Air Service training camp in southern Ontario (Little Norway) was opened November 1940, Øen was assigned to oversee training. When Ole Reistad arrived at the camp in 1941, Øen was transferred to London as chief of staff to Commander in Chief Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen. In 1942, Øen was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.[1][2]
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Honors
In 1929, Øen received the
Légion d'honneur and was made a Honorary Commanders of the Order of the British Empire. He died during 1994 and was buried at Vestre gravlund
in Oslo.
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References
- ^ a b c "Bjarne Øen". lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d Mohr, Wilhelm. "Bjarne Øen". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
- ^ Barth, Bjarne Keyser, ed. (1930). "Øen, B. A.". Norges militære embedsmenn 1929 (in Norwegian). Oslo: A. M. Hanche. p. 647.
- ^ Store norske leksikon(in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
- ^ "Kongens fortjenstmedalje". lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
External links
- Jens Chr. Hauge (2014) Tale for General Bjarne Øen på hans 95 års fødselsdag 6. november 1993 (Stiftelsen norsk Okkupasjonshistorie)
Related reading
- Fredrik Meyer (1973) Hærens og marinens flyvåpen : 1912–1945 (Oslo: Gyldendal) ISBN 8205056080
- Per Conradi Hansen (2007) Little Norway, a message of Liberty to the Hills of home (Military Historical Foundation of Eastern Norway) ISBN 978-82-997663-0-2
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