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.
Sub Lt (A) Paul Fahrenholtz was born in Denmark, but naturalised in Canada in 1935. He served in the Canadian Army and later in the Fleet Air Arm. He was killed on 30 October 1941, when he collided with another aircraft approach to RNAS Eastleigh.
Pvt Erhardt Frederik Jensen was one of the more than 30,000 Danish-Americans who were mobilized during the Second World War. He served in the Army Air Force.
Charles Marinus Sundby was one of the Danish officers, who escaped occupied Denmark in 1940 to join the Allied air forces. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force serving as a flight instructor for a year and a half, before serving as a ferry pilot on the Atlantic. In late 1942, he joined the China National Aviation Corporation and flew more than 600 transport sorties from India to China over the Himalayas. He was killed in a flying accident in 1948.
T/5 David Thalmay was born in Copenhagen in 1920 by Jewish immigrant parents. In 1942, he enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to Army Air Corps signals unit in Kunming, China. His brother, Jacob, was active in the Danish resistance movement, but died following arrest in in Mathausen in March 1945.