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Eyvind Gunnar Bundgaard
LAC E. G. Bundgaard was one of the Danes serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. He is presumed to have been a mechanic, but few details are available on his service.
LAC E. G. Bundgaard was one of the Danes serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. He is presumed to have been a mechanic, but few details are available on his service.
Kaj Birksted is the most well known, successful, and highest ranking Danish Royal Air Force pilot of the Second World War. He ended the war as Wing Commander of the Bentwaters Wing and played a key role in the forming of the Royal Danish Air Force after the war.
During the Second World War, a large number of Danish pilots were in British or Norwegian air service. Though many were accepted in one of the Norwegian squadron, 234 (Madras Presidency) Squadron is by far the most 'Danish' of all squadrons of (or associated to) the Royal Air Force. In all nine Danish pilots and three Spitfires is in 234 service.
From early on the Danish volunteers in the RAF wanted to distinguish themselves as Danes in Allied service. One way of doing that was to wear a nationality shoulder title on the uniform.