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Margrethe Jørgensen
Margrethe Jørgensen was one of the Danish women who served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War.
Margrethe Jørgensen was one of the Danish women who served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War.
Thyra Hansen lived in Canada before the war. She was engaged as a civilian in the kitchen of Little Norway at Muskoka Airport in 1944.
Compared to the number of Danes who volunteered for Waffen-SS, a rather small number of Danish military and navy pilots joined the Luftwaffe. In all seven Danish officers volunteered, were accepted, and trained in the Luftwaffe. Of these six were trained
About three years ago I carried out a search on the World War 2 Nominal Roll website (of Australia) finding 38 individuals born in Denmark who served in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War. Ever since I have been researching these individuals trying to find out how many of these who were in fact still Danish when the enlisted in the Australian forces.