Introduction
Profiles
The nucleus of this site is the individual profiles of each person I have been able to find that was in air force service during the war. The profiles can be accessed though the alphabetical index.
The nucleus of this site is the individual profiles of each person I have been able to find that was in air force service during the war. The profiles can be accessed though the alphabetical index.
Carl Rasmus Thusgaard is a Danish born photojournalist who is killed in the Pacific during the Second World War. A Liberty ship is named after him only a few months after his death.
Ove C. Terp is trained as pilot in the Danish army before the war. He joins Luftwaffe in 1941, survives the war, works for USAF before joining the Bundesluftwaffe as German citizen in the 1950’s.
Marius Byrge Hanneval Haagensen is born in Denmark, but as his father is a naturalised British Subject in 1884. He volunteers for the Royal Australian Air Force and serves as telegraphist in a number of units.
ACW1 Anita Nydam was born in Copenhagen but emigrated to Australia at an early age. She enrolled in the Women's Australian Auxiliary Air Force in Juli 1942 and served as cook and later clerk signals until October 1944.