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Thorkil Peter Niels Enevoldsen Hansen
LAC T. E. Hansen enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force aged 58 in March 1943. He was born in Denmark in 1884, but emigrated to New Zealand in 1916.
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Einar Knud Alfred Andersen
Einar Knud Alfred Andersen is in service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and is killed in action in 1942. He is, according to my information, born and raised in Britain, presumably, by a Danish born father. Hence, he is registrered as English.
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Danes down under
Eighteen Danes served in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War. For most Danes in the Allied forces their service was connected—more or less directly—to the fight for the liberation of Danish. For those in Australian service, the stakes were different, and their service was perhaps more linked to the defence of their new country from the Japanese threat.
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Hawker Typhoon Ib (SF-G ‘Aase’)
A photo of a Hawker Typhoon from 137 Sqn named ‘Aase’ and a Danish flag in a Scottish newspaper caught my eye. It is likely that Aase was the sweetheart of one of the pilots, while stationed in Copenhagen for six weeks from early May 1945.
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Britain's Victory, Denmark's Freedom
