Grethe Ploug was one of the Danes serving in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in 1941-43. She served as a Clerk Special Duties, Plotter (presumably Radar Plotter). In September 1943, she enlisted in the Norwegian Women's Corps/Air forces.
Victor Andersen joined the Royal Air Force before the war. Evacuated at the fall of Singapore, he later returned to the Far East as an intelligence officer in Burma, India, China, and—at the end of the was—in Japan.
During the Second World War an ambulance was donated to the Royal New Zealand Air Force by the Danish Association in New Zealand. A number of photographs in the collection of the Royal Danish Library document the event at which some of the Danish volunteers were present.
It was a busy day in B.160 Copenhagen/Kastrup on 7 May 1945. Just before 11.00 hrs. a Mosquito FB VI touched down. Three weeks before the pilot had bombed the Gestapo HQ in Odense, now he arrived with the soon to be Foreign Minister.
