PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Larsen, Leif Andreas
Date of birth: January 9th, 1906 (Bergen, Norway)
Date of death:  October 12th, 1990 (Bergen, Norway)
Nationality:  Norwegian
BIOGRAPHY: 
Leif Andreas Larsen joined the Shetland Bus, the popular name for the clandestine naval operation in World War II between the Shetland Islands (Scotland) and Nazi-occupied Norway, in the Finnish Winter war.
In total he made 52 tours to Norway and back with fishing vessels and submarine chasers, transporting secret agents, weapons, radios and other supplies.
Larsen, known as 'Shetlands Larsen', became the highest decorated Norwegian in WW II
After the war Larsen had a major role in organising the naval branch of the Norwegian Home Guard.
In 1954 Leif Larsen played himself in the movie Shetlandsgjengen
There is a statue of him by the UNESCO site of Bryggen in Bergen.
     
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER (DSO)
 
     
CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY MEDAL (CGM)
 
     
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS (DSC)
 
     
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL (DSM)
 
     
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL (DSM)
Details: Awarded as a bar for on the ribbon of the first DSM.
 
     
KRIGSKORSET
Awarded on: 1942
Details: First Swoard (1942)
Second Swoard (1943)
 
     
ST OLAVSMEDALJEN
 
     
KRIGSMEDALJEN
 
     
DELTAKERMEDALJEN 1940-1945
 
     
HAAKON VII'S 70-ÅRS-MEDALJE
 
     
TALVISODAN MUISTOMITALI
 
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Information source(s):   - Shetlopedia
- Krigskorset
- Dictionaries and Encyclopedias on 'Acedemic'
- The New York Times
- Wikipedia
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