Olaf Bjornson
1903 - Olaf Bjornson is born on a farm in Sweden.
1917 - 14-year-old Olaf's brother dies during WWI
1923 - 20-year-old Olaf joins the Swedish army.
1926 - 23-year-old Olaf becomes on of Sweden's first pilots in it's Air Service.
1939 - 36-year-old Olaf tries to join the British forces in England but instead falls in with Janos Prohaska, joining the Blackhawks.
1941 - WWII begins.
1947 - 44-year-old Olaf & the Blackhawks help kill Hitler's brain.
1951 - 48-year-old Olaf retires when Janos Prohaska is lost.
1953 - 50-year-old Olaf dies saving his nephew from a farming accident.
Usually depicted as a hulking beheamoth of a man, capable of huge feats of strength as well as being a gifted acrobat, Olaf is a key member of our Blackhawks lineup.
There's a little discrepancy as to what his last name actually is. Generally, the Blackhawks all go by just one name, so he was always just refereed to as Olaf, but his last name has been written as both Friedriksen and Bjornson. Friedriksen seems to be the more common last name for him, but there's already a Blackhawk that actually goes by the name Hendriksen, so it's a little redundant for Olaf's name to be so similar. Instead, we went with the less-commonly used Bjornson. |