Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1899, Oct. 23 | Born, Tviet, Norway |
| 1916 | Degree in forestry engineering, Forestry School, Moseby, Norway |
| 1920-1921 | Trained as a pilot in the Norwegian Royal Naval Air Force, Horten, Norway |
| 1924 | Commissioned flight lieutenant, Norwegian Royal Naval Air Force |
| 1926 | Mechanic for Roald Amundson's dirigible flight over North Pole Assisted Richard Evelyn Byrd in preparations for flight over North Pole in trimotor Fokker Josephine Ford |
| 1927 | Relief pilot, Richard Evelyn Byrd's transatlantic flight in trimotor Fokker America; given control of the plane when weather deteriorated and landed successfully in waters off the French coast |
| 1929 | Piloted first flight over the South Pole for Richard Evelyn Byrd |
| 1930 | Granted U.S. citizenship by special act of Congress |
| 1933-1935 | Chief pilot, Lincoln Ellsworth's antarctic expedition |
| 1935-1940 | Chief inspector, Norwegian Airlines (Norske luftfartselskap) |
| 1941-1943 | Appointed captain in U.S. Army Air Corps and charged with constructing an air base in Greenland to ferry bombers to England |
| 1942 | Promoted to colonel; awarded Distinguished Flying Cross |
| 1943-1945 | Named chief of the Allied Air Transport Command for Scandinavia and the Soviet Union; actively supported Norwegian underground resistance movement |
| 1946-1948 | President, Norwegian Airlines |
| 1948 | Returned to active duty with U.S. Air Force; commanded the Tenth Search and Rescue Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska |
| 1951-1956 | Special assistant on Arctic affairs to the secretary of the air force |
| 1951 | Project officer for construction of air base at Thule, Greenland |
| 1956 | Retired from the U.S. Air Force |
| 1958 | Published autobiography Come North with Me. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co. |
| 1959 | Consultant, General Precision Laboratory, Pleasantville, N.Y. |
| 1966 | Consultant, Engineering and Program Development Department, General Dynamics, New York, N.Y. |
| 1973, Oct. 17 | Died, Westchester County, N.Y. |