Oluf reed olsen biography of georgetown

Oluf Bernhard Reed-Olsen, born 8 July 1918 in Aker, Norway – died 14 October 2002 in Oslo, Norway was a Norwegian resistance member and pilot during World War II. As a resistance member he is best known for the Lysaker Bridge sabotageas well as operating illegal radio transmitters.

After the war he was a businessman and Scouting leader. He wrote books and contributed to a film based on his war experience.

He was born in Aker. He grew up in Bestum and graduated from middle school at Ullern in 1934.

He then took commerce school and took pilot education in the airline Widerøe's Flyveselskap.

When World War II reached Norway with a Nazi German invasion on 9 April 1940, he started resistance work on the same day. On the night between 13 and 14 April he famously blew up the Lysaker Bridge together with Kåre Moe and Leif Moe.

This sabotage had national-level repercussions, in that it contributed to the surfacing of the Administrative Council on the