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Main sources: Anders Bjørnvad´s books Faldne Allierede Flyvere 1939-45 (FAF) (Fallen Allied Airmen), De fandt en vej (DFEV) (They found a way) and Krigens Monumenter (KM) (Monuments of the War). Anders Bjørnvad writes about every allied airman buried in Denmark. That is the basis of the system with numbers of cemeteries and airmen in this database.

So indirectly I also build on Anders Bjørnvad´s sources in litterature and archives - and works of Birger Hansen, Ove Hermansen, Ole Kraul, Henrik Skov Kristensen, Claus Kofoed, Frank Weber, Ole Rønnest and others.

Most important additional source: Søren C. Flensted: Airwar over Denmark (AOD) a very comprehensive and detailed website with all planes and their crews. All exact names of planes (such as Stirling I W7531) are from AOD. The list of types of operations is based mainly on AOD, and the numbers of planes follows AOD chronologically with the first plane 30 SEP 1939 and the last 5 MAY 1945.

Søren C. Flensted in AOD also in his own way builds on the sources already mentioned, as well as Finn Buch, Niels Erik Stampe and others.

Henrik Skov Kristensen, Claus Kofoed and Frank Weber: "Western Allied Air Raids in Denmark during the Second World War" gives a general view of the air war with many details. The types of operations are from that source.

Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift ((Danish) Aviation Historical Review edited by Danish Aviation Historical Society) had useful articles in 1985-91 of air crashes in most of Denmark. FT 88-44-49 means 1988, page 44, plane 49.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission gave permission to use information from their website CWGC. John Ernest Fitzgerald shows how.

Other sources are used to some extent. Additional information is very welcome!  I like to link to other websites. In addition to Airwar over Denmark there may be pages about a certain air crash or certain airmen written by residents of the area in question, by military units or by the bereaved families.

I include further information from sources I find in many different ways. Photos of headstones and monuments and texts about airmen and planes are in focus.

Till now I have received information and help from Niels Erik Stampe, Finn Buch, Bodil Nedergaard, Henning V. Jensen, Helge W. Gram, Anders Lund, Ole Rønnest, Kristian Peder Moesgaard, E.V.H. Jensen, Leo Bram, Gunnar Hounsgaard, Gert Laursen, Else Hjort Nielsen, Ove Hermansen, Derek Carter, Regitze Olesen, Kristian Brandt Ladefoged, Jens Brandt, Aage Snedker, Ebbe Bork, Eli V. Nielsen, Thomas Schrøder, Jørgen Jørgensen, Frede Gotthardsen, Einar Storm, Ib Walbum, Kaj Christensen, Bendt Fogh, Jens Thomsen, Signe Rømer, Arne Rosenkvist, Peter Forrester and others. (This list was last updated 25 NOV 2008)

Contact Anders Straarup  straarup@linksbuketten.dk  / Anders Straarup, Karetmagervej 25, DK-8920 Randers NV   See Linksbuketten - A Bunch of Links.