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unusual facts about Moen, Troms


Moen

Moen, Troms, a village in Målselv municipality, Troms county, Norway


24th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron

Flew "shakedown" missions against Japanese targets on Moen Island, Truk, and other points in the Carolines and Marianas.

457th Airlift Squadron

Flew "shakedown" missions against Japanese targets on Moen Island, Truk, and other points in the Carolines and Marianas.

Daniel Brewster

On April 29, 1967, Brewster married Anne Moen Bullitt Biddle (1924–2007) at Glyndon, Maryland.

Gamlehaugen

Michelsen gave the task of converting it into a large park to gardener Olav Moen, who later became a professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

German destroyer Z13 Erich Koellner

The captured crewmen were first incarcerated in Vardøhus Fortress in Finnmark and later transferred to Skorpa prisoner of war camp in Troms until released after the end of the Norwegian Campaign.

Green Carnation

This was enough to convince Bjørn Harstad (In The Woods... guitarist), Stein Roger Sordal (Soxpan ITW... live bassplayer), Kjetil Nordhus (vocals) and Bernt Andrè Moen (Shining) to join the band in time for the actual recording for the album Light of Day, Day of Darkness, a single track, 60-minute progressive metal epic again recorded in Dub-studio.

Grov

Grov, Troms, a village in Skånland municipality, Troms, Norway

HNoMS Hitra

It was not until 1981, when the Soviet submarine U 137 (Whiskey on the rocks) ran aground, that S. Moen, the director of the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten saw the abandoned Hitra in a newspaper image.

Kaldfjorden

Kaldfjorden, Troms, a fjord in the island of Kvaløya in Tromsø municipality, Troms county, Norway

Kjosen

Kjosen (Troms), a fjord arm off of the main Ullsfjorden in Tromsø/Lyngen municipalities, Troms county, Norway

Laberg

Laberg, Salangen, a village in Salangen municipality, Troms county, Norway

Moi, Norway

Moi is also home to Moen Bjøllefabrikk, a bell manufacturer, which was the official supplier of small bells to the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics and the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics.

Muirceartach Ua Peatáin

Payton states that most of the Cenél Moen families were driven out of their homeland and east over the Foyle river - "This journey was probably completed by the end of the 13th century, and the O Gormley's, chiefs of the Cinel Moain, thereafter held sway over a territory which extended from Derry to Strabane."

Øystein Runde

Runde and Moen reimagined them as a reluctantly assembled team of special agents, forced to cooperate because of a zombie invasion in the Frogner Park.

Petter Vaagan Moen

It was during his spell at HamKam Moen earned the nickname "Mjøsas Beckham" (The Beckham of Mjøsa)

Sandsøya

Sandsøya, Troms, an island in Harstad municipality in Troms county, Norway

Sandsøy Church, a church in Harstad municipality in Troms county, Norway

Sandstrand

Sandstrand, Troms, a village in Skånland municipality, Troms county, Norway

Sigfrid Persson-Moen

He was also very familiar with the Uyghur language, and wrote down and translated many Uyghur poems and stories.

He was a skilled photographer and took many pictures during his time in Xinjiang, pictures that are archived in the National Archives of Sweden (Riksarkivet).

Skipsfjorden

Skipsfjorden, Karlsøy, part of the Fugløyfjorden in Karlsøy municipality in Troms

Skipsfjorden, Torsken, part of the Torskenfjorden in Torsken municipality in Troms

Station Group Banak

Increased range of Soviet aircraft during the 1970s diminished the need for troops in Finnmark; combined with Norwegian tension and nuclear policies, this caused the United States to favor Vestfjorden and Troms over Banak as the primary areas of defense.

Storfjorden

Storfjord Church, a church in Storfjord municipality, Troms county

Turi Widerøe

After working with ore research for the mining company A/S Sydvaranger in Inner Troms, she acquired her commercial license in 1965.

Victoria Vistas

Local Vancouver Island players in the 1990 team included John Hughes, David Ravenhill, Ian Bridge, Dallas Moen, Frank Woods, Ken Andrews, Rick Jaskens, and Ron Budisa, all of whom played at Royal Athletic Park in a four team tournament in either 1991 or 1992 against Vancouver 86ers, Dundee United FC, and a Chelsea FC line-up which included Welsh international and later actor Vinnie Jones.

Vollen

Vollen, part of the Gangsås neighborhood in the town of Harstad, Troms county, Norway


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