The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-12

Officers dncluding Captain Restad), toast King Haakon with sherry; enlisted hoist mugs of beer. Here Norway is building the greatest airforce in her history. The camp is certainly one of the most romantic military establishments in history The men have from all corners of the world Twenty of them left Antarctic whaling vessels to join the colors Others worked passage from South Africa, China Japan, the Argentine. But the ma- jority of the 700 fliers in training escaped from Norway itself They slipped through the Nazi don to be passed by friendly Swedes to Finland, thence to make their way across Russia and Siberia and the Pacific
 Others crossed the North Sea-a hornets nest of submarines mines and hostile planes-in frail little boats. few actually rowed their way to freedoml Take, for example, the two husky blond kids who prefer to go unnamed-havng families in Norway. When they had enough of German occu- patton, they pooled resources. They had $6. Five of this went to buy a leaky old rowboat. They caulked to make it seaworthy, bought cigar cites and bread with their remaining dollar. Then their odyssey began Rowing at night, they dodged through of the 150,00O islands that dot the coast During the day they slept in fjords. To have been caught meant death. This went on for
 week until they struck an isolated spot near Ber- gen. Here they set out to sea, guided by pocket compass. That they reached the tiny Shetland Islands is an amazing feat of navigation. The jour- ney took six days. Except for the briefest rest periods they rowed constantly. Otherwise, they would have frozen. Trouble? Tt bad when the cigarettes ran out"
 Another pair, university students made slightly better time in a 2O-foot boat Rowing by day and sailing by night-when the sail wouldn't attract enemy attention-they made the Shetlands in four days Three others slipped out of Oslo. From fisherman they bought 18-foot boat powered with an ancient one-cylinder engine. He warned them that they must keep the temperamental engine going They did-for three days. During the trip submarine came to the surface near them The men expected a shell any second, but feeble dis guse got them through. Enemy patrol planes cir ced overhead two occasions. More work with nets, and they went away
 Four men in a s2-foot sailboat travelled 4,OoO miles through the Artic Ocean to reach Canada Another pair slowed away in oceanographic ves- sel bound for Greenland where they skipped ship In stolen rowboat they made their way along the coast for week until they struck Eskimo village where they picked up by a Canadian trader.
 How many have been lost in these hair-raising efforts to escape from Norway? No one dares guess But from time to time bullet-ridden bodies wash up on the British shore-mute testimony that all don't get through.
 New candidates for the air force arrive in Tor onto daily Sailors in dungarees, in cheap suits provided by their London governmental exile, boys in sweaters. Whole ship crews have volunteered and been rejected for Norway can't afford to cripple it's vital merchant marine. But vessel is tor pedoed its is free to fight. The who cape from Norway have no plans. They come ob- sessed by the idea that somehow, somewhere they must strike back at the invader.
 Will he be going soon?, one of the husky Norwegian boys is asked. Yes. And he hopes that he will have chance to bomb Norway. This sounds odd To dslodge the invader, he explains. The people on the ground will understand He is sure of this, and somehow you are too.
 Already two squadrons of 24 planes each are fighting over Britain and the continent. Hence forth steady stream of flers will flow toward Britain, their places at the camp taken by new re- cruts. Twelve volunteers far have enlisted from the United States and similar number of Danes who escaped from their occupied homeland.
 This is the spirit that wins wars. Men who fight on even after their homeland has been over run are men who will not be beaten. Success to the heroes of Camp Little Norway!
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