Carl Gustav Fleischer
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Carl Gustav Fleischer was a Norwegian general and is considered first land commander to win a major victory against the Germans in the Second World War. Having followed the Norwegian government into e
Carl Gustav Fleischer in 1940
Carl Gustav Fleischer in 1940
General Fleischer's gravestone at Vår Frelsers gravlund.
Memorial to Fleischer and the 6th Division at Lapphaugen in Troms, Norway. The memorial stone is flanked by heavily modernized ex-German 10.5 cm leFH 16 field howitzers.
The Norwegian armed forces in exile were remnants of the armed forces of Norway that continued to fight the Axis powers from Allied countries, such as Britain and Canada, after they had escaped the Ge
Carl Gustav Fleischer
…government into exile at the end of the Norwegian Campaign, Fleischer committed suicide after being bypassed for appointment as commander-in-chief of the Norwegian Armed Forces in exile and being sent to the insignificant post as commander of Norwegian forces in Canada. Fleischer was born in the rectory in Bjørnør Municipality (now…
The Norwegian Brigade War Memorial in West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh.
Norwegian soldiers on the front-line north of Narvik, May 1940
Guard at the Little Norway training camp in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sleipner at sea sometime after the Second World War.