Danish WW2 Pilots

Profiles

The nucleus of this site is the individual profiles of each person I have been able to find that was in air force service during the war. The profiles can be accessed though the alphabetical index.

Henry Frandsen Sorensen

T/5 Henry F. Sorensen was one of the Danish nationals serving with the USAAF during the war. Born in Denmark in 1904, he had arrived in the USA in 1924. At en listment in 1942, he had not yet become a citizen of his new country.

Kjeld Christian Johan Pedersen

Kjeld C.J. Pedersen is trained as pilot in the Danish Naval Air Service before the outbreak of the war. In 1942 he manages to escape to Denmark in a D.H. Hornet Moth with his friend Thomas Sneum. He volunteers for the Royal Air Force and is in service in different squadrons until the end of the war flying Hurricanes and Spitfires.

Eli Mariane Basballe Heilskov (née Sørensen)

Pvt. Eli Heilskov enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in 1943. She was one of twenty-nine Danish born WACs during the Second World War. While she was serving as a WAC, her son volunteered for the Danish military forces in exile in Sweden in December 1944.

John Gregers Rosenstand Elbo

Sgt J. G. R. Elbo was born in England in 1922, by Danish parents. He volunteered for the Royal Air Force during the war and was engaged in intelligence work.