Danish WW2 Pilots

S/Sgt Borge O. Kellstrom was killed in action, when B-17G 43-38234 <i>Easy Does It</i> was shot down by flak on a mission to Berlin on 5 December 1944. He was born in Rønne, Denmark, but emigrated with his family to the USA in 1923. He was one of more than 30,000 Danish-Americans mobilized during Second World War.

Kaj Olaf Mortensen arrived in New Zealand in late 1940 onboard the four-masted barque Pamir. He enlisted in the RNZAF in 1943, but seems to have served in the Army as well.

A small number of Danes working in the plantation industry in Malaysia in the 1930s volunteers in 1940-41 for the Malayan Volunteer Air Force – a small force that support the allied forces in South-East Asia during the 1941-42 campaign.

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.