He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, graduated from the Norwegian Naval Academy in 1931 and from the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Academy in 1932.
He was educated at the Norwegian Naval Academy in Bergen from 1976 to 1977 and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur. degree in 1982.
He attended Berg School in Oslo, then underwent naval officer training at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy.
After the war the Academy was first located in Oslo, but in 1960 it was relocated to the present site in Laksevåg, Bergen.
Academy Awards | United States Military Academy | Russian Academy of Sciences | National Academy of Sciences | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | United States Naval Academy | Norwegian language | United States Air Force Academy | Royal Academy of Music | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Brooklyn Academy of Music | Phillips Academy | Naval Postgraduate School | Royal Military Academy Sandhurst | Naval War College | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norwegian people | Phillips Exeter Academy | Chinese Academy of Sciences | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | National Academy of Engineering | Norwegian krone | Royal Naval Air Service | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Academy of Fine Arts | Naval Reserve | British Academy | Academy Award for Best Picture | Office of Naval Research |