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.
Cpt. E. B. Petersen was in New York as a student when the war broke out in September 1939. He enlisted in the US Army Air Corps in February 1942. He joined the SHAEF Mission to Denmark and arrived to Copenhagen in early May 1945 with the first allied troops.
Helga Søndergaard Jensen was one of the Danish women who served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War. She had gone to England in 1938.
LAC Mogens Bruun Jensen served as Motor Boat Crew in the RAAF from 1942-1945. Jensen’s twin brother, Gunnar Bruun Jensen, was shot by the Germans in December 1944. He was a member of the Danish resistance movement. Jensen was discharged in June 1945 to allow him to return to Denmark, but missed the memorial service.
Ernst Schalburg was a Danish business owner in London at the outbreak of war. He volunteered for the RAF in 1941. From March 1944 he headed the Recruiting Office, Danish Nationals in London. Schalburg’s nephew was one of the most well-known Danes in the Waffen-SS and his niece arrested as a German spy. Two sons and a daughter served in the Allied forces.