Einar Paul Albert Muni Lundborg ( Swede: Einar Paul Albert Muni Lundborg ; , - , ) - Swedish military pilot, participant in the rescue operation of the Arctic expedition of General Nobile in 1928.
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Biography
Einar Lundborg was born in Calcutta in the family of the Swedish missionaries Niels Eric Ericsson Lundborg and Amanda Wilhelmina Loren. In 1907, the family returned to Sweden. In 1914, Einar joined the military. In 1918 he volunteered for the civil war in Finland , then he joined the Estonian army and took part in the War of Independence . He was awarded the Finnish, Estonian and Russian military orders.
In 1922, Lundborg received a pilot’s certificate and taught at a flight school in Malmslett . In 1927, he married Margaret Charlotte Malmberg (1900-1981).
The events that brought Lundborg world fame are associated with the Arctic expedition of General Nobile on the airship "Italy", which crashed on the way back from the North Pole. On June 23, 1928, Lundborg, the first of all the pilots participating in the rescue operations, managed to land his single-engine Fokker CV biplane on an ice floe and took Nobile himself and his dog to Svalbard. Lundborg expected to evacuate all the aeronauts from the ice in a couple of days, but during the second landing on June 24, he crashed and crashed the plane. Lundborg remained in the ice camp until July 6, when Swedish pilots took him out. On July 12, the Italians were taken aboard by the Soviet icebreaker Krasin.
On January 27, 1931, Lundborg died in a plane crash while testing the Swedish Jaktfalken fighter.
In the movie
In the Soviet-Italian film "Red Tent" the role of Lundborg was performed by German actor Hardy Krueger . Lundborg in the film is shown not only as an adventurer, but also as a cynical voluptuary, which does not correspond to the recollections of contemporaries about the real Lundborg: from childhood he was distinguished by a bold character and a craving for adventure, but he was also a decent person.
Literature
Einar Lundborg. The Arctic Rescue - How Nobile Was Saved. - Mellon Press, 2011 .-- 214 p. - ISBN 978-1447423935 .