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Pilot Officer Nils Jørgen Fuglesang
18/09/2023
Second World War Air Force Non-Commonwealth The Great Escape
By CWGC

Pilot Officer Nils Jørgen Fuglesang, was captured in May 1943 when his Spitfire fighter plane was shot down over Holland. Following the ‘Great Escape’ he was recaptured and murdered.

Like the others, he was cremated and his ashes were placed in the memorial at Stalag Luft III. In 1948 his ashes were returned to his home town of Rasvåg in Hidra, near Flekkefjord, Norway. He was laid to rest in Hidra Cemetery and today his family cares for his grave.

Pilot Officer Nils Jørgen Fuglesang (copyright unknown).