Cpl Ingvardt M. Smitsdorff was born in Denmark but emigrated to the United States in 1929. He served in the USAAF from 1942 to 1946 and served overseas in the United Kingdom. He was one of the Danish nationals enlisting in the USAAF.
Jens Henning Fisker "Morian" Hansen is perhaps the most colourful of the Danish volunteers. He volunteers for the Royal Air Force as early as in 1939 before the German occupation of Denmark, and is awarded the prestigious George Medal in 1940.
Norway was liberated on 8 May 1945 on VE-day. More than fifty Danes serving in the Royal Norwegian Air Force celebrated and participated in the liberation of their second, wartime homeland.
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.
