Bernt Balchen
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Bernt Balchen was a Norwegian pioneer polar aviator, navigator, aircraft mechanical engineer and military leader. A Norwegian native, he later became an American citizen and was a recipient of the Dis
A Ford Trimotor once flown by Balchen
Image of Balchen's plane
Balchen's Consolidated OA-10 Catalina on the ice in Greenland after a rescue
Memorial plaque to Bernt Balchen in Kristiansand
Little Norway
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Little Norway, officially Flyvåpnenets Treningsleir, was a Norwegian Army Air Service/Royal Norwegian Air Force training camp in southern Ontario during the Second World War.
Bernt Balchen
…with Canadian government officials to obtain an agreement to use available airport facilities at the Toronto Island airport on Lake Ontario known as "Little Norway". During the war, over 2,500 Norwegian aviators of all categories: pilots, navigators and mechanics, were trained in the various bases of "Little…
A Norwegian guard at the camp gate in November 1940.
Fairchild PT-26 in the colour scheme used in the Little Norway training camp, Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
Closeup of Fairchild PT-26 nose art