Just got a little family history lesson from my mom. My great-grandfather is on the Internet, or at least his name is. Ingebrigt A. M. Teigland is listed on a page of Word War II prisoners of war. I guess the “A. M.” stands for Andreas Mikkal (or maybe Mikkel... I'll have to look that up at some point).
He was a merchant marine working in French Indochina (Vietnam) when stuff happened. The page says he became a prisoner on December 7th, 1941, though I'm not sure if that's directly related to the attack on Pearl Harbor. They don't list when he was released, but apparently my grandmother has said he wasn't imprisoned for very long. However, the story goes that he was forced to captain some Japanese ships until the conclusion of the war.
Another story I've heard before indicates that one year, my great-grandfather was on the first ship to get to Duluth after the lakes thawed. My mom has never been able to figure out when that happened, though.
My grandfather, Eivind Horvik, shows up a few times on the Internet. That's mostly because of a scholarship in his name (he died a few years before I was born).
Back to WWII for a moment, my extended family in Norway owns property that still has old Nazi bunkers in it. The one I saw when I went there on a trip about 10 years ago was carved into the side of a fjord. It overlooks a large waterway, so I'm sure they kept a close eye on the water traffic..
Anyway, just some random tidbits.
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