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Niels Haubert Jensen
T/Sgt Niels Haubert Jensen was one of the more than 30,000 Danish-Americans who served in the US armed forces during the Second World War. He served as crew chief on "the Hump" over the Himalayas.
T/Sgt Niels Haubert Jensen was one of the more than 30,000 Danish-Americans who served in the US armed forces during the Second World War. He served as crew chief on "the Hump" over the Himalayas.
Pvt Kjeld M. Svarrer was born in Copenhagen, but emigrated to the USA at an early age. He enlisted in the USAAF in 1943 and served until discharge in 1946.
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.
It was a busy day in B.160 Copenhagen/Kastrup on 7 May 1945. Just before 11.00 hrs. a Mosquito FB VI touched down. Three weeks before the pilot had bombed the Gestapo HQ in Odense, now he arrived with the soon to be Foreign Minister.