Roy Nielsen
Roy Nielsen (born March 27, 1916 in Kristiania , † April 4, 1945 ) was a member of Milorg in the Norwegian resistance during the Second World War and participated in propaganda and sabotage .
Nielsen was born in 1916 to Christian and Signe Nielsen. He married Helen Næss in 1941. He was an active amateur boxer in Club Fagforeningenes IF av 1926 .
During the Second World War he was a member of the armed Norwegian resistance organization Milorg . He worked with the soldier Max Manus of the Kompani Linge in the SOE Operation Bundle , which involved sabotage of German ships. The group experimented with self-made torpedoes . An attempt to hit a troop ship in the Oslofjord failed. A later attempt in the summer of 1944 attempting to hit a destroyer outside of Moss was a partial success as the ship had been badly damaged and out of service for seven months.
Among his sabotage operations was the destruction of 25 Messerschmitt fighter jets and 150 engines in a bus garage in Oslo on August 14, 1944, along with Max Manus , Gunnar Sønsteby and others.
Together with Max Manus, he succeeded in sinking the German troop ship SS Donau on January 16, 1945 in the Oslofjord by placing magnetic limpet mines with a time delay on one side of the ship.
While trying to evade his arrest by German soldiers, he was shot on April 4, 1945.
Individual evidence
- ^ Larsen, Petter .: Med AIF-stjerna på brystet: glimt fra norsk arbeideridrett . Tiden norsk forlag, [Oslo] 1979, ISBN 82-10-01853-1 .
- ↑ Voksø, Per, 1923-, Mountain, John, 1938-: Krigens dagbok: Norge 1940-1945 . Det Beste, Oslo 1984, ISBN 82-7010-166-4 .
- ^ Dahl, Hans Fredrik .: Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 . JW Cappelen, [Oslo] 1995, ISBN 82-02-14138-9 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nielsen, Roy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kristiania |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1945 |