Wilhelm Mohr

Preface
Air Force, is the only article that has not previously been published. It
was written in 1994, and was translated into English by the author.
It should be noted that all pictures and maps in the original texts have
been removed – partly because of copyright issues, and partly because I
have not had access to the pictures presented in these articles. All illustrations
in this book – pictures, maps, reports – have been provided by
the author. The text in the first article, The contribution of the Norwegian
Air Forces, and the third article, Friends and allies: a wartime memoir has
been kept in its original form without any modifications, as it was originally
written in English. In the other three articles, which have been
translated into English, I have tried to incorporate the formally correct
terminology for aircraft and squadrons in the few places where there
were any discrepancies. With one exception (footnote 31), all footnotes
have been provided by the author in order to elaborate upon or explain
events, individuals or issues that otherwise would make little sense to
a non-Norwegian reader and, I fear, to many of the new generation of
readers, regardless of their nationality.
Lieutenant General (r) Wilhelm Mohr has a somewhat sober nature,
and for years he has been reluctant to emphasize his own role in WWII
or his service in the RNoAF, neither on a personal level through a
biography, nor in other written works. He decided early on not to write
a book about his own experiences in WWII. He has, however, written
a number of articles and lectures on the war, and I would argue that
the five articles presented in this book form an adequate summing up
of these texts.
The present contribution is not in any way a detailed academic analysis,
narrative or collection of memoirs. Even so, by collecting and presenting
texts, pictures, maps and transcripts of various Norwegian squadrons’
historical war records during WWII, I hope this can be a small
but valuable contribution to understanding the history of the RNoAF
1998), Krigsinvaliden, No. 1/1998, pp. 131–144. The article is reproduced with the permission
of the Norwegian War Disabled Association.
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