Erling Munthe-Dahl

Military Career before World War II Erling Munthe-Dahl graduated in Autumn, 1915. He later graduated from the Norwegian Military Academy's upper department in 1918, and was then appointed first lieutenant in the Engineering Weapons. After this he was an inspection officer on the War School's engineering line. He then applied for admission to the , and was a student there from 1919 to 1920, before he was permanently employed in the same department from 1921. In 1921, Munthe-Dahl started at the Military College. From 1922 to 1926 he was ordered as head of the Northern Norway Aviation Department. In 1921, Munthe-Dahl started at the Military College. From 1922 to 1926 he was ordered as head of the Northern Norway Aviation Department, and he also took a military college degree in 1923. Munthe-Dahl had also served in several French air regiments.

From 1937 to 1939 was Munthe-Dahl Chief of Staff of the Army Air Force, and he was appointed chief of Jager Wing at Fornebu on October 20, 1939.

Prisoner of War On January 24, 1942, Munthe-Dahl was arrested at the Grini detention camp, and held there as a prisoner until February 5, 1942. He was then transferred to the German camps Schokken, Grune, Oflag XXI-C and finally Luckenwalde, all the time with being labeled as prisoner number 29. He was a prisoner of war until the end of the peace in 1945. He ended his career in the Armed Forces in 1962, as Major General and Commander of Luftkommando Vestlandet (LKV), in the headquarters at Sola.