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.
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.
T/Sgt Frants Sporon-Fiedler volunteered for the Royal Canadian Air Force in November 1943 having graduated from Harvard University. He was the son of the consul general in San Francisco, who had broken ties with the Danish Government following the German occupation.
Niels Ebbesen Kloppenborg emigrated to Canada in 1928, and served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the war.
Svend Sondergaard was one of two brothers serving as Flight Engineer in the RCAF during the Second World War. He was killed in action during a raid on Frankfurt in December 1943.
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.