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[Above: Volunteers of the Freiwilligen Legion Norwegen in May of 1942]
[Above: An Unterscharfuhrer of the Freiwilligen Legion Norwegen]
[Above: A ski trooper of the 6th-Gebirgs Division Nord. He is armed with a captured Russian Tokarev rifle.]
[Above: Norwegian volunteers being sword in to the Waffen-SS.]
[Above: Norwegian NCO of the Wiking Division at Cherkassy.]
[Above: Norwegian volunteers of the Den Norske Legion on the Leningrad Front.]
[Above: Norwegian volunteers of the Den Norske Legion pushing an artillery piece.]
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[Above: Norwegians in winter quarters during the seige of Leningrand in 1942. Note the picture of Vidkun Quisling on the wall.]
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[Above: Fighter extraordinaire and hero Untersturmführer Johann Petter Balstad.
[Above: Here is an example of the Tank Destroyer Badge. It came in two grades--silver and gold.]
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[Above: Legion-Sturmbannfuehrer Arthur Quist, second commander of the Norwegian Volunteer Legion.]
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[Above: Heinrich Himmler and Norwegian Legion-Sturmbannfuehrer Jonas Lie, commander of 1. Politikompaniet den Norske Legion.]
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[Above: These young men are most likely from the jäger battalion in Finland. Nearly all of them died fighting communism in June of 1944.]
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He was a Norwegian volunteer of SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 23 Norge (11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Nordland).
Note on his right arm are THREE tank destroyer medals. These vaunted awards were given for single-handedly destroying enemy tanks.]
