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Swedish aviator
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Lundborg
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Place of birth
Kolkata, India
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AriesPlace of death
Malmslätt, Sweden
Age
34 years
Awards
Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class
Order of the White Rose of Finland
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Biography
Einar Paul Albert Muni Lundborg (April 5, 1896 – January 27, 1931) was a Swedish aviator.
Biography
He was born on April 5, 1896.
In 1928 he rescued Umberto Nobile after Nobile's airship crashed on the ice north ofSpitsbergen. He was later promoted to captain in the Swedish Air Force.
Before joining the airforce, Lundborg participated in the Finnish Civil War in 1918 and in the Estonian War of Independence in 1919–1920.
Lundborg was killed during a test flight of the Jaktfalken airplane at Malmslätt in 1931. He was survived by his wife Margareta, née Malmberg (1900–1981). He is buried in Linköping, Sweden.
Honours and awards
- Estonian War of Independence
- Cross of Liberty 3rd class II phase (August 17, 1920)
- Estonia's war memorial
- Finnish War
- Cross of Liberty Class III with Swords and Class IV with Swords (Finland)
- Order of the White Rose of Finland, Commander 2nd class
- Finnish gallantry medal, Phase II
- Swedish Brigadier gallantry medal
- Medal of Tampere
- Russian Army in the Northwest
- Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class with Swords
- Order of St. Anna, 3rd class with Swords
- German Army
- Iron Cross,I and II Classes
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