{geni:about_me} Immigrated to Chicago with parents and attended grade school there. His childhood years are documented in the book "In Their Own Words, Letters from Norwegian Immigrants" edited by Solveig Zempel for which Jens T.Anker prepared the chapter entitled "A Chicago Mother, Bergljot Anker Nilssen, 1923-1929". He attended high school in Sarpsborg, Oslo Handelsgymnasium in Oslo, Norway and he was there during the German Nazi invasion, got out as U.S. citizen May 9, 1940, over Genua, Italy to New York. His sister and uncle were not as fortunate as they spent the war in a concentration camp in Norway, both surviving the ordeal. Back in USA, Jens then attended classes at NYU until going to the newly formed "Little Norway" Royal Norwegian Air Force training camp in Toronto Canada. He served the next four years during WWII as an officer in the R.N.A.F. including overseas duty in London, and Reykjavik, Budareyi in Iceland. After the war he settled in Minneapolis MN where he met his wife Elizabeth Alden Weigel who preceded him in death in 1991. They had four children.
1918 - 2008 (90 år)
