Gunnar Soensteby, a Second World War resistance fighter who earned Norway’s highest military decoration for daring raids against the Nazis, died yesterday at a hospital in Oslo. He was 94.
By The Newsroom
Published 11th May 2012, 03:56 BST
Soensteby was a member of Kompani Linge, a group trained in Britain for secret missions during the 1940 to 1945 Nazi occupation of Norway, which carried out sabotage raids to hamper the German war effort.