Peter Vogelius Deinboll, DSO, MC (29 July 1915 – 8 November 1944) was a Norwegian engineer, and

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member during

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Personal life

He was born in Sulitjelma as a son of Peter Blessing Deinboll and Sigfrid Hildur Deinboll, née Nagell. His parents hailed from Nærøy and

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. He grew up in Orkanger, where his father worked for Salvesen & Thams at Thamshamn from 1920. Peter Deinboll had a degree in

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from the

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, and worked at the railway workshop at

Thamshavn Thamshavn or Thamshamn is a small port village in the municipality of Orkland in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is the site of the port for the town of Orkanger and the ferrosilicon plant Elkem Thamshavn. It is located right along European route ...

before the outbreak of

World War II

When

reached Norway, he participated in Norwegian Campaign battles. He fled to the United Kingdom in 1941 and was enrolled in the

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. In 1942 he led a series of sabotage operations directed against the transport of

pyrite The mineral pyrite (), or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula Iron, FeSulfur, S2 (iron (II) disulfide). Pyrite is the most abundant sulfide mineral. Pyrite's metallic Luster (mineralogy), lust ...

s from the mines at Løkken Verk to Germany. He disappeared during air transport between the United Kingdom and Norway, 8 November 1944.

Thamshavn sabotage

Denboll was in charge of three of the sabotage operations directed against transport of pyrite from Løkken. The first operation took place in April–May 1942, when a

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station at the

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was blown up. The second operation lasted from September 1942 until early 1943, when the German transport ship ''Nordfahrt'' (5,000 ton) was sunk at Thamshavn. The third operation, in October–November 1943, resulted in the blowing-up and destruction of five locomotives, and damaging others. Locomotives were not easy to replace, because the track width of the Thamshavn Line was not used by other railways in Europe. A fourth operation carried out by group ''Feather II'' led to further destruction of material. An electric locomotive which had been damaged by the Deinboll group had been sent to Oslo to be repaired at Skabo, but was eventually blown up by the sabotage group

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in September 1944. Deinboll was decorated with the War Cross with Sword, the St. Olav's Medal With Oak Branch, the

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and the

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Personal life

World War II

Thamshavn sabotage

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