3rd Police Company — Company Commander Berg
(As recounted by Leif Stensønes)
Stensønes was deputy section commander in 4th Section, 3rd Platoon, and accordingly armed with a sub-machine gun.
The company came to Germany in June 1944 and from there proceeded to Finland, arriving a few days before the Ski Battalion was destroyed — thus around the middle of August.
The company lay first in Oulu for eight to fourteen days, and then continued by rail to Rovaniemi–Kemijärvi to relieve the Ski Battalion, though it arrived too late for that purpose.
Having passed Kemijärvi, the company halted to rest at a German billet. During the night the billet was bombed from the air, and Stensønes received a shell splinter in his left cheek. He lost consciousness and did not come to himself again until he was in hospital in Oulu, where he lay for fourteen days.
Upon his discharge, when he was to return to the company, Finland capitulated.
The 3rd Police Company had numbered 200 men on its arrival in Finland, but in Oulu some 60 to 70 were detached to the Ski Battalion.
Stensønes was sent to hospital in Germany, while Captain Berg received orders to lead the 3rd Police Company back to Norway. This came to nothing, however; Captain Rustan took over and led the company on its march from Finland over the mountains to Narvik — a truly remarkable feat of endurance.
In Norway, the company was to have been inserted into the German defensive line in the Lyngen area, facing northward and supported by fortifications out at sea.