Introduction
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.
Profiles
Henry Haakon Hansen (1915–2002)
War sailor and Lancaster pilot. Henry Haakon Hansen was at sea at the outbreak of war in Europa in September 1939. He continued at sea for the first two years of the war, but volunteered for the Royal New Zealand Air Force in October 1942. He was trained as pilot.
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Cpl Karen Andersen (m. Holst–Try) (1913–1999)
Karen Andersen (m. Holst-Try) was one of the Danish women who volunteered for the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War. She had arrived in England in 1937 and served in different households in the late 1930s.
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Flt Lt Robert Christian Bostrøm (1920–2005)
Robert Christian Bostrøm served in the Royal Air Force, Administrative and Service Duties Branch, during the Second World War. The experiences during his military service inspired him in his passion for earth sciences, which became his academic career after the war.
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Kvm Poul Erik Schmidt-Hansen (1918–1977)
Erik Schmidt-Hansen is among the first Danes to volunteer for the Royal Norwegian Air Force. He is trained in Canada, but volunteers for convoy duty, and ends in the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen.