Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Technical Sergeant Torger Tokle, 25, towheaded, Norwegian-born ski-jump champion of the Western Hemisphere (289 feet), ex-Brooklyn carpenter; from German shell-fragment wounds; near Monte Torraccio, Italy, as his loth Mountain Infantry Division made a four-mile advance...
From war-wasted northern Norway came a ringing call to religious arms. Said Bishop Arne Fjellbu of the Norwegian State Church (Lutheran), in his first official statement since he returned from exile (TIME...
...this fight. We still have many enemies. The devil, the world and our own lust have assumed great power. . . . Liberation was accompanied by the burning and destruction of houses and homes, of everything the people needed to sustain life. In many places churches . . . have been destroyed. The free Norwegian soil has become the scorched earth. . . . Every head of a Christian family is a pastor in his own home. . . . The [ministry] must feel . . . that in every hut he has helpers...
...Navy follows with 101. Eighteen have died in the Marines, 11 with the armed forces of Great Britain, eight in the Canadian services, seven in the United States Coast Guard, two in the Field Service, one in the Merchant Marine, and one each with the Fighting French and the Norwegian and Peruvian Air Forces. Six of the dead were civilians in special uniformed services or on government duty in combat areas...
...Remember Mama. Picturesque, nostalgic pages from a Norwegian-American family album (TIME...