Danish WW2 Pilots

Eigild Ramsdahl Rohde served in the Norwegian air force in camp "Little Norway" for a brief period during the Second World War. I have little information on his service, though.

Flt Lt Peter Frederik Fischer volunteered for the Royal Air Force in 1943 as he graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge. He was selected for pilot training, but chose to serve as an air gunner in order to get into operations before the end of the war. He flew fifty-two operations in Bomber Command from May 1944 to February 1945.

Twenty years ago, in August 2006, the domain 'danishww2pilots.dk' was registered and the first version of this website went online. What began as a small personal research project has grown into perhaps the most comprehensive online references documenting Danes who served in Allied military aviation during the Second World War.

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