Jubilant Norwegians passing a defeated German soldier during the celebration of peace in Oslo, May 8th 1945.

Like most German soldiers in Norway he was not lynched after the capitulation because of the high standard and discipline the Wehrmacht had maintained in Norway during the occupation.

Peace

Norwegian pilots from the 132 Norwegian Wing in Belgium, 1944. Halvor E. Bjørnestad (b. 1922) at left. He was shoot down twice by German flak.

Norwegian pilots

The Independent State of Croatia’s leader Ante Pavelić (left) inside the cockpit of a Croatia Air Force’s Italian-built primary trainer Avia Fl.3. On the right the major general and commander of the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia Vladimir Kren, a former officer in the Royal Yugoslav Air Force, which after the war was sentenced to death and executed in Zagreb on 2 December 1948. Victor Sierra