Introduction
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.
Profiles
Thyra Hansen (née Petersen) (1897–1963)
Thyra Hansen lived in Canada before the war. She was engaged as a civilian in the kitchen of Little Norway at Muskoka Airport in 1944.
Profiles
T/4 Otto Madsen (1908–1974)
T/4 Otto Madsen was born in Denmark in 1908. He was working as a radio repairman as the war broke out. He enlisted in March 1943 and became worked on fighter control equipment in mainland USA during the war.
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Flt Off. Elsie Helen Rude (née Toye) (1909–1989)
Elsie Helen Rude (née Toye) volunteered for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in 1941. She was commissioned in 1942 and was promoted to Flight Officer before the end of the war. In 1943, she married Hans Gunnar Rude and, thus, became one of the Danish WAAFs.
Profiles
Pfc. Niels Tuxen (1915–1982)
PFC Niels Tuxen was one of the young Danes serving in the US Army Air Force during the Second World War. He arrived in the United States in late 1940 and enlisted in 1942. The nature of his service is not clear, but he was trained as a radio technician before the war.