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.
S/Sgt Erik Christiansen was one of the more than 30,000 Danish-Americans who were mobilized during the Second World War. He was trained as a flight engineer and served in the Ninth Air Force. He was killed in action on 23 December 1944 during an attack on the Ahrweiler railroad viaduct.
William Oluf Grut is born in Denmark, but of Swedish nationality. He volunteers for the Malayan Volunteer Air Force as well as for the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War.
Erling Qvistgaard Hansen flew anti-submarine patrols in 330 (Norwegian) Squadron during the Second World War.
1LT Maggie Ingeborg Carlson enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in 1942. She was one of twenty-nine Danish born WACs during the Second World War. Before and after the war, she worked in the U.S. Foreign Service in, among other places, Denmark.