Jens Tryggve Herman Gran DSC

Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)

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, MC

Military Cross

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 (20 January 1888 – 8 January 1980) was a Norwegian aviator, explorer and author. He was the first pilot to cross the North Sea.
Tryggve Gran was born in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

, Norway, growing up in an affluent family dominant in the shipbuilding industry. His great-grandfather Jens Gran Berle (1758–1828), had founded a shipyard in the Laksevåg

Laksevåg

Laksevåg is a borough of the city of Bergen, Norway.-Location:Laksevåg was separated from Askøy as a municipality of its own July 1, 1918. It was merged with Bergen January 1, 1972....

 borough of the city of Bergen. His father, the shipyard owner, died when Tryggve was only five years old.