Keep updated on updates on profiles on Danish servicemen in air forces around World during the Second World War. http://danishww2pilots.dk/ Copyright 2005-2012 Mikkel Plannthin Poul Bent Heilmann is one of a small number of Danish volunteers in the Malayan Volunteer Air Force during the Second World War. http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=260 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=260 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:40:35 +0000 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=409 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=409 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:18:33 +0000 Niels Erik Westergaard is in fact a British subject and as such he is given the opportunity to leave Denmark following the German occupation on 9 April 1940. He joins the Royal Air Force, but is killed in 1944 on a raid over Germany. He is awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross post mortem. http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=94 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=94 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:51:19 +0000 Kaj Birksted is the most well known, successful, and highest ranking Danish Royal Air Force pilot of the Second World War. He ended the war as Wing Commander of the Bentwaters Wing and played a key role in the forming of the Royal Danish Air Force after the war. http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=15 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=15 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:30:19 +0000 A former Danish Army Corps pilot, Sigfred Johannes Christophersen evades Denmark with Jørgen Thalbitzer in the end of 1940. He is trained by the SIS as agent and is sent to Denmark with Thomas C. Sneum in late 1941. Evacuated from Denmark he joins the Royal Air Force. He is tragically killed during a night exercise in August 1943. http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=21 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=21 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:36:59 +0000 Jørgen Thalbitzer was one of several Danish pilots who joined Royal Air Force early in the war and was attached to 234 (Madras Presidency) Squadron. http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=91 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=91 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:36:16 +0000 At the outbreak of war, Frede J. Florentsen is studying in Glasgow, Scotland. Finishing his studies later that year, he volunteers for Royal Air Force in the beginning of 1941. He is in service until the end of the war. http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=25 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=25 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:32:13 +0000 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=330 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=330 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:42:44 +0000 Leif Kaare Pay in one of the Danes attached to the RAF Ferry Command during the Second World War. He is - records indicate - an experienced pilot when joining in mid-1942, and is attached to this command until the end of the war. http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=257 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=257 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:51:56 +0000 Henner Friser Frederiksen is one of the Danish pilots in the little known Malayan Volunteer Air Force fighting the Japanese supremacy in South-East Asia in 1941-1942. http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=264 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=264 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:59:52 +0000 Jørgen Kjeldbæk was one of many Danes abroad at the outbreak of war, working for the East Asia Company. He is evacuated from the Far East following the Japanese advance, and is trained as pilot in England in 1942. http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=50 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=50 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:02:35 +0000 Hans Christian Madsen is one of a small number of Danish pilots who volunteers for the Malayan Volunteer Air Force during the Second World War. He is captured by the Japanese and is sent to the notorious Burma-Siam Railway also known as the "Death Railway." http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=263 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=263 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:08:33 +0000 Torkild Lunøe is one of a small number of Danish pilots who volunteers for the Malayan Volunteer Air Force during the Second World War. He is captured by the Japanese and is sent to the notorious Burma-Siam Railway also known as the "Death Railway." http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=262 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=262 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:23:44 +0000 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=201 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=201 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:37:48 +0000 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=195 http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profiles.php?id=195 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:17:45 +0000