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.

Ida Marie Svejstrup Jensen

Pvt. Ida Marie Svejstrup Jensen enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in 1944. She was one of twenty-nine Danish born WACs during the Second World War.

Willy Due Alfred Rentzmann

PFC Willy Rentzmann was one of the Danes serving in the US Army Air Force. Few details are available, but he served in Italy in 1944. Before and after the war Rentzmann was active in the Mortal Re-Armaments movement.

Frederick Brisson

Lt Col Frederick Brisson was born in Denmark, but naturalied in the US in 1942. He headed the AAF Office of Radio Production during the war and was awarded the Legio of Merit medal. Brisson was the son of one of the most famous Danish actors of the time and married to the actress Rosalind Russel. Cary Grant was the best man at his wedding.

Henner Friser Frederiksen

Henner Friser Frederiksen was employed by the East Asiatic Company in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur before the war. He volunteered for the Malayan Volunteer Air Force in late 1940 and was mobilised in December 1941. He served with the air force until the retreat from Java in February 1942.