Perry C. Scheller studied at the University in Paris in early 1940 and became part of the exodus from Paris as the Germans advanced on the French capital. He returned to Denmark, where he was part of the resistance movement, before escaping to the United Kingdom where he joined the RAF.
Victor Andersen joined the Royal Air Force before the war. Evacuated at the fall of Singapore, he later returned to the Far East as an intelligence officer in Burma, India, China, and—at the end of the was—in Japan.
It was a busy day in B.160 Copenhagen/Kastrup on 7 May 1945. Just before 11.00 hrs. a Mosquito FB VI touched down. Three weeks before the pilot had bombed the Gestapo HQ in Odense, now he arrived with the soon to be Foreign Minister.
Three Danish women served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. The Canadian Women’s Auxiliary Air Force was created in mid-1941 and became the Women’s Division, an integral part of RCAF, in 1942.
