Sfc. Dagmar Groth enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in 1944. She was one of twenty-nine Danish born WACs during the Second World War. She served in the WAC for more than twenty years, before discharge in 1964.
Karen Margrethe Østergaard was one of the women of Danish descent who volunteered for the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. She served in the Women’s Division in Canada and Newfoundland.
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.
The Danish pilot Poul Henrichsen worked for the East Asiatic Company in Singapore before the war. In October 1941, he volunteered for flying training at the Government Flying Training School in Singapore. The article tells the story of this establishment.
