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Vilhelm Brandt
Vilhelm Brandt is one of the Danes who volunteer for the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. He is trained as an Armourer and serves in Canada.
Vilhelm Brandt is one of the Danes who volunteer for the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. He is trained as an Armourer and serves in Canada.
Thalbitzer escaped Denmark in late 1940, and volunteered for the Royal Air Force in London in 1941. He was shot down over France in mid-1942 and became PoW. He escaped from Oflag XXI-B in March 1943, but died in the attempt to get to Sweden later that month.
On 30 June 1945, the Royal Air Force exhibition in Copenhagen officially opened. The exhibition was hosted by the department store Magasin du Nord on Kongens Nytorv in central Copenhagen. Danish Fg Off. Jørgen T. Bruun returned to Denmark from India to take part in the running of the exhibition.
Norway was liberated on 8 May 1945 on VE-day. More than fifty Danes serving in the Royal Norwegian Air Force celebrated and participated in the liberation of their second, wartime homeland.