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.
Torkild Lunøe is one of a small number of Danish pilots who volunteers for the Malayan Volunteer Air Force during the Second World War. He is captured by the Japanese and is sent to the notorious Burma-Siam Railway also known as the "Death Railway."
Børge Nielsen was one of three Danes serving in 205 Grp in the Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force. From bases around Foggia in Italy he carried out thirty-nine operations from August to December 1944.
Knud Clauson Kass is one of the Danish pilots who volunteer for the Finnish Winter War in 1939/40. He is also a veteran of the Finnish Civil War of 1918.
S/Sgt Henrik W. Hansen left Denmark as a young seaman in 1937. He settled in the USA and in 1942 he enlisted in the US Army. He served in the USAAF in the Philippines in 1944-45.