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Christian Hasager Christiansen was a Danish officer who, during World War II, photographed a V-1 flying bomb, which had crashed on the island of Bornholm.

Christiansen, along with police commissioner Johannes Hansen photographed the bomb before the Germans discovered it. In addition, he had a sketch made, and determined that the warhead had been replaced by a block of concrete. Copies of the photographs were confiscated by the Germans, and were used to identify police commissioner Hansen. Hasager Christiansen was arrested on September 5th 1943, and tortured. On 8th October, he was transferred to a hospital, and on 22nd October was rescued and smuggled into Sweden. As a consequnce of the torture, he underwent 2 major surgeries in Sweden.

Hasager's photographs and the sketch reached the British intelligence services, where they were included in R. V. Jones' assessment of the V-1 weapon. Jones was assistant director of scientific intelligence.

Hasager was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, and a dedication in R. V. Jones' memoirs.