1/48 Scale RAF Pilot Figure, Ltn. Marius Eriksen

Item No.: BUC48-009

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Marius Eriksen

This figure of Lt. Marius Eriksen is cast in resin and includes a head option for both with and without a type-c helmet.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Lieutenant Eriksen was a fighter pilot in 332 (N) Squadron during World War II . He received his flying training from Little Norway in Canada , after fleeing from Norway to Scotland , via Ålesund on 5 November 1940 , at the age of just 17. He managed to do this by lying that he was 18 years old. ^[1] He shot down nine enemy aircraft and damaged three. With more than five aircraft shot down, he qualified for the designation of flying ace .

He himself was shot down in his Spitfire on 2 May 1943 by Hauptmann Dietrich Wickop of Jagdgeschwader 1 , Woensdrecht off the coast of the Netherlands , and was held as a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III near the town of Żagań in Poland until the liberation in 1945. Wickop himself had to make an emergency landing with his Focke-Wulf Fw 190 after the duel with Eriksen.

Sports and movies

He became Norwegian champion in slalom in 1947 and 1948. He participated in the 1948 Winter Olympics for Norway in St. Moritz , finishing 20th in the downhill and 20th in the alpine combined .

In 1954, Eriksen made his film acting debut, playing a ski instructor in the comedy Troll i ord by Jon Lennart Mjøen and the same year as a journalist in Kasserer Jensen by Nils R. Müller . In the film Slalom under the sky (directed by Edith Carlmar 1957 ), he plays a pilot on an F-84 Thunderjet .

Family

After the war, Eriksen ransacked his own sports shop and opened the clothing store "Bentestova" in Oslo.

He was the son of the gymnastMarius Eriksen Sr. , brother of the alpine skier Stein Eriksen , son-in-law of Bjart Ording and father of Beate Eriksen . The so-called Marius sweater is named after him.