About airmen.dk   About airmen.dk * Sources * Construction * FAF Summary * Loss of Lives             Preliminary edition   12 JAN 2011

The website www.airmen.dk is under construction – maybe 2/3 ready! It is created to commemorate allied airmen 1939-45 in Denmark. See an overview in
FAF Summary. Here Anders Bjørnvad has written about his book Faldne Allierede flyvere - Fallen Allied Airmen - my main source. See Airmen 1946.
The fallen airmen are not an anonymous group. They were men, often very young, who lost their lives in the war of their time. We have every reason to be grateful for
what they did. The aim of this website is to preserve their names, what their loved ones felt by the loss of their airman and what Danes felt by experiencing the war at
close range. See p262 LAN, Avne*p083 STI, Galsklint*p216 LAN, Stadil*p237 B17, Alstrup - and a case of uninterrupted contact between relatives of airmen and a
Danish family in Aastruplund. See also Smith - photos and Markowicz, Doris Hendrick, a visit 2004 and The propeller 2004. Stettin April 1943. B-17. Police. Doctors.
On 19 NOV 1939 the first airman was buried in Denmark in Klitmøller. In the evening of 5 MAY 1945 a B-24 was shot down! The last airman was shot down on 9 MAY!

See Schrenk, Clay and de Mars, USAAF, Powell, RAF, McGregor, RNZAF, Hicks and Clerc, RCAF. A mother lost her son, RAF. A woman lost her brother from RAAF.
This is about people! There are texts on a number of headstones: Orritt: In memory of Ralph, our beloved only son and his comrades. Each day a memory.
Culley: Horses he loved, laughter and the sun. A dog, wide spaces and the open air. It is easy to find many kinds of texts on headstones.

See the German attitude to burials in Tønder, Fårevejle, Dejbjerg and Mårum! See 3 burials in Vadum. Danes tended graves in Marstal and Karlslunde. Bispebjerg.
See Monuments for crews. Planes ready can help, but parts of texts are ready in many cases. Google gives more. It is obvious to include surviving airmen.
Some became POWs like Philson in 1941.See German POW-Camps.Others avoided capture and maybe reached Sweden.  Webster nearly made it to Sweden.
Donald V. Smith got there! Mecznik, Murphy, Wasik, Murray, Flower, 4, Fry and crews from Bornholm and Stevns got help! See Halfdan Rasmussen and 2 airmen.

Nearly all airmen and planes described in books by Anders Bjørnvad and in Airwar over Denmark by Søren C. Flensted are included in www.airmen.dk.
Their extensive works are quoted or retold with their permission and indication of sources. See also 25 FT-planes. CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves
Commission) gave permission to use information on their website! Airmen, planes, cemeteries and memorials will be included in this website together with
photos of headstones, plots and memorials - and all of these photos are there by now! No need to collect photos of airmen and planes, since Søren C. Flensted
has already done that so excellently in Airwar over Denmark.

1944 was the most decisive year for me during the war 1939-45. I was born that year. A teacher in 1966, an officer of the reserve in the field artillery 1968, a teacher
and a guidance counsellor till 2006, now with time to take advantage of all of my background in this website with allied airmen. No one asked me to do it! Till now I have received positive response from a number of people from Denmark, United Kingdom, USA (see video from Schrenk), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Poland! To ensure the information gathered www.airmen.dk has received a donation from the Resistance Museum's Friend's Fund.

A teacher went into the forest at Aarestrup to carve the names of a full crew. EH made 47 names in cross stitch for St Clement Danes. I make this website.
Work on www.airmen.dk is far from completed, but now there is so much to see that the press can look at it and everyone is welcome to link to it.
See MAP OF DENMARK MARKED WITH FALLEN AIRMEN by Asger Westh in Jyllands-Posten Tuesday 2 September 2008 and
The Memories of the Air War over Denmark Return by Jens Ejsing in Berlingske Tidende Monday 29 September 2008, both translated by KK.
Please contact
            Anders Straarup  straarup@linksbuketten.dk  / Anders Straarup, Karetmagervej 25, DK-8920 Randers NV Photos. See Linksbuketten - A Bunch of Links.