Bjørn Egge
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Bjørn Egge (born 19 August 1918) in Norway is a retired Major General.
He was a soldier during the German attack on Norway in 1940. He participated in the break out by Norwegian merchant vessels from Gothenburg in March 1942, the vessel was sunk and he was captured by the Germans.
He spent 3 years in German camps and returned to Norway in May 1945. He entered officers training and served in the Norwegian army in various positions.
Egge served with the Norwegian contingent in Democratic Republic of Congo in 1960 as an intel officer, and he was the first to get to the site where the United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld had died.
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