Otto Hjalmar Antoft was the oldest of two brothers, who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. From early on he wanted to join a Danish Squadron and fight overseas. He was killed in action during the Operation Market Garden on 21 September 1944.
Antoine Winther was a member of the French Air Force at the outbreak of war. In June 1940, he escaped to England and continued flying training in the Free French Air Force.
In 1943 the pilot and author Clauson Kaas publishes a book entitled Danish aviators in the air. An appendix lists all then trained army and navy pilots. During the period 1935-1939 a total of 26 pilots are trained in the small Danish navy air service. I have been looking into the path taken by these pilots during the following years.
Sometimes the man in the centre is not the most interesting person in a photograph. This was certainly true, when I was looking at a photograph of Field Marshal Montgomery returning to his aircraft at B.160 Copenhagen/Kastrup on 12 May 1945. In my research the most interesting man in the photograph is the man on the far right. This is Flt Lt Vagn Christensen.