Profiles
ACW Alice Rasmine Nielsen (1924–2005)
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.
Profiles
FS Erik Flohr Jacobsen (1917–1944)
Erik Flohr Jacobsen enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1942 and was trained as fighter pilot. He was killed in late May 1944 during a low-level attack on a train in Brittany, France.
Article
B.160 Copenhagen/Kastrup - The Summer of 1945
Group Captain John Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson, top-scoring fighter ace in the European theatre, begins and ends his best-selling memories, "Wing Leader", in Copenhagen. This is due to the fact that he is the commanding officer of B.160 Copenhagen/Kastrup in May-June 1945. But it is not only the presence of this well-known pilot that makes the airport an interesting place.
Article
Singapore Cadets
The Danish pilot Poul Henrichsen worked for the East Asiatic Company in Singapore before the war. In October 1941, he volunteered for flying training at the Government Flying Training School in Singapore. The article tells the story of this establishment.