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.

Torben Edouard Hartvig

Torben E. Hartvig joined the Free French in his hometown of Algiers as a young man. He was arrested and narrowly escaped a death sentence before going to England in 1943 to volunteer for the Royal Air Force. He served as an air bombardier.

Poul Bent Heilmann

Poul Bent Heilmann is one of a small number of Danish volunteers in the Malayan Volunteer Air Force during the Second World War.

Poul Bruno Arends

Poul Bruno Arends arrived in London in december 1943 from Ecuador. The family had moved there from Finland in 1939 to escape the Finnish-Russian war. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force in early 1944.

Peter Mueller Jensen

Peter Mueller 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.