Danish WW2 Pilots

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.

Alice Rasmine Nielsen

ACW1 Alice Rasmine Nielsen served in the Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force (WAAAF) in 1943-1946. She was born in Aarhus in 1924, but her parents had emigrated to Australia as early as in 1914.

Volmer Riis Koefoed

Volmer R. Koefoed was one of the Danish nationals serving in the US Army Air Forces. He enlisted in 1942 and served as an armourer in Europe in the 356th Fighter Group in the United Kingdom.

Bent Michael Herbst Jensen

Bent Herbst Jensen may have been the first Danish pilot to face a Me 262 jet aircraft. He is one of the Danish pilots who serve in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.