Johan Koren Christie (air force officer)

[1] He was born in Vang, Hedmark as a son of professor Werner Hosewinckel Christie (1877–1927) and Karen Amalie Wedel-Jarlsberg (1886–1952).

In 1939, he was hired in the company Norsk Aluminium, and he was on a working trip in Linköping when World War II reached Norway on 9 April 1940.

On 7 June 1940, when Norway capitulated, Christie followed the cabinet and the royal family in their exodus to London.

In June 1944, he quit active flight, and became connected to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces.

He then headed the Repatriation Office, which tracked and rescued Norwegian concentration camp prisoners as Germany lost the war.