Construction of airmen.dk preliminary edition Updated: 16 APR 2008
There was
a long way from the idea of a website and to the present stage! Finn
Rasmussen from &RASMUSSEN, host of
www.airmen.dk, gave fine technical assistance
and help to get started. Without him nothing would have happened.
You can easily switch between overview and details in a database. You can see all of the crew of a plane even if they rest on different cemeteries, and you can see all at the same cemetery. It is easy to add more search criterias, so I ended up with 12 to be mixed at will.
The database is made in Access 2003 and
the website in FrontPage 2002, Internet Explorer 7, screen 1024 x 768,
print horizontally, landscape.
The Lancaster-button is from
this photo from
Flightline UK and the flags to
indicate languages are from Hotel Randers.
Anders Bjørnvad approved my plan and mentioned Søren C. Flensted, Airwar over Denmark - (AOD). Søren C. Flensted accepted my plan, and then it was possible to move on! A contact to a person with knowledge of airmen very often gives at least a couple of suggestions of other persons, who may have useful information. See more in Sources of airmen.dk.
Ove Hermansen translated a poem by Paul H. Scott from the Runnymede Memorial into Danish, and Aage Hill-Madsen translated into English the story of Wasik, who was helped to Sweden.
If nothing else is indicated I have taken the photos. Fortunately, Hans Andersen has via M.F. Jørgensen and Carsten Jørgensen made his great collection of photos of memorials available to www.airmen.dk . He had not been to Bornholm, but Birger Bendtsen from Pedersker sent photos from there. Knud Riis has delivered photos from Esbjerg and 10 other cemeteries! A great collection of photos from Mogens Jeppesen is also at my disposal for www.airmen.dk! Jørgen Toft sent photos from Stenbjerg and Else Hjort Nielsen sent from Drejø and Skarø.
Ole Rønnest gave exact positions of planes crashed at Aalborg and permission to use his book "The Doomed Squadron" for this website. Frank Weber sent the 2 volumes of "Vestallierede Luftangreb i Danmark under 2. verdenskrig" ("Western Allied Air Raids in Denmark during the Second World War")!
When names of airmen at the cemeteries had been typed in, many airmen appeared via a search page. At 93 planes there were 0 hits! All survived or none has a known grave. They will if possible appear in www.airmen.dk. Pages on special subjects will be added.
Right now I need findvej-links to many crash sites and monuments. Very useful, see p083 Galsklint and the memorial stone at Langøre. Zoom!
Links to accounts of air crashes and airmen are also very welcome! Please send a mail to Anders Straarup straarup@linksbuketten.dk
