He was born in Kristiania as a son of wholesaler Ragnvald Bredo Lunde ( 1889 – 1964 ) and housewife Bergljot Iversen ( 1892 – 1987 ) . He attended his first years of school in Nordstrand and Oslo Commerce School from 1935 to 1937 . During World War II he was a soldier , first in the Norwegian Campaign . After irregular resistance work , he fled to Sweden , where he worked in the Norwegian legation in Stockholm . He then continued to the United Kingdom , where he received further education in the Royal Norwegian Navy-in-exile and the Royal Navy . Among others , he participated in the D-Day invasion , surviving the sinking of his ship , the destroyer HNoMS '' Svenner '' . He became heavily decorated with the UK Defence Medal , the Norwegian Defence Medal with Star , the Atlantic Star , the Norwegian War Medal with Star as well as two French and one Soviet medal . He chaired the '' Marinens Reserveoffiserers Forbund '' from 1948 to 1957 , and received four veterancy awards between 1976 and 1991 . From 1994 he chaired the Royal Norwegian Navy veterans ' association . He contributed to erecting D-Day monuments at Vippetangen in 1992 and Hermanville-sur-Mer in 2004
Norwegian Defence Medal with Star
Defence Medal 1940–1945
Hakon Lunde