via www.nytimes.com
I have to confess that I had never heard this amazing man. He was no doubt in the shadow of the great Thor Heyerdal. His obituary reads like a movie script and in fact part of it was.
His exploits in WWII were featured the movie The Heroes of Telemark. My favorite excerpt was about how he took to being part of the Kon-Tiki crew:
"By the time Mr. Haugland met Thor Heyerdahl, the future leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition, in a British paramilitary training camp during the war, he had already experienced enough danger to last a lifetime. A 101-day voyage from Peru to Polynesia on the open ocean aboard a balsa raft would have been the ultimate test of courage and endurance for most men, but for Mr. Haugland it was more like an adventure vacation."
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