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
SSgt Camilla Mathilde Carlsen (née Petersen) (1900)
Camilla Carlsen was one of the Danes volunteering in Canada, where she had lived since 1925. She served in the CWAC in Canada and overseas. Meanwhile her husband operated in the field in Denmark as a SOE agent.
Profiles
Axel Nielsen (1906–n/a)
Axel Nielsen served briefly in the Royal Norwegian Air Force in Canada and on Iceland. He transferred to the merchant navy and made several Atlantic crossings in 1941-1942.
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Sgt Gladys Nielsen (1917–2014)
Sgt Gladys Nielsen enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in 1942. She served as an Army Air Force WAC and was one of twenty-nine Danish born WACs during the Second World War.
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Niels Charles Jensen (1920–1990)
2nd Lt Niels Charles Jensen was one of the more than 30,000 Danish-Americans who served in the US armed forces during the Second World War. He was trained as pilot and served in the Eighth Air Force. He was shot down on 9 September 1944 during a mission to Ludwigshaven. He became a PoW for the rest of the war.