Ragnar Paulsen

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Date of birth

February 3, 1922

Parents

Georg Harald og Reidun Paulsen

Gender

Male

Nationality

Norway

Birthplace

USA

Place of living

Jørpeland pr Stavanger

County

Rogaland

Service

Norsk handelsflåte i nøytral fart 1939-1940

Uteflåten 1940-1945

Rank

Jungmann

Other

• Participant in WW2

• Miscellaneous

  Ex gratia-arkivet:

  Registernummer under krigen: London 45877, NY 4277.

  Til Det norske Luftvåpen i Canada 20. januar 1941, nr 362.

  Brev fra Ragnar Paulsen 22. mai 1975: "I was on the Schoolship Christian Radich summer 1939 no, 28 to New York, [...] England, When i returned I was hired out by the Vangenlinjen in Oslo to the s/s Lindvangen which was sailing out of New Orleans on the boxide run signed on for 18 months [...] but served only 14 months due to the fact I joined Luftforsvaret in Toronto."

  Certificate of Honour: "Presented to Ragnar Paulsen for having obtained the highest proficiency in all subjects on fifty-two Wireless Air Gunner's Course ... Dated this 17th. day of May nineteen hundred and forty three".

  Kanadisk statsborger fra april 1948.

  Sources

  RA/S-3545/G/Gg

• Engagement (1)
• Medals (6)
• Images (0)
• Documents (0)