Planes and missions På dansk  Airmen 1946*Loss of Lives*Types of planes*Search form for the database 27 JAN 2021

Planes and missions United Kingdom Canada Australia New Zealand Poland USA    
www.airmen.dk  RAF    +14=311 RCAF RAAF RNZAF   -14=1 PAF USAAF Unknown Total
Drop in Denmark 17 0 0 0 0 1 0 18
Attack Denmark 19 0 2 RNZAF 1 0 8 0 30
Day Ranger 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 7
Patrol 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Intruder 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Bomb Germany 111 19 9 3 3 81 0 226
Not DK / Germany 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
SOE to Poland 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Minelaying 84 16 3 11 3 0 0 117
Anti Ship 30 1 1 0 0 0 0 32
Sea rescue 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Other 6 1 0 0 0 1 0 8
Unknown  0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
  297 37 15 15 7 91 1 463

Drop in DK: See overview in Gram, airmen and supply operations. These planes were lost. See the Memorial Tablet in Rebild.
Attack Denmark: Bombing raids on airfields in Aalborg and Esbjerg. Gestapo HQs in Aarhus, Copenhagen and Odense. Planned in detail!
Day Ranger: Not exactly pointed out before take off. Destroy planes and transport. See MUS FZ110 at Aalborg and MOS NS906 Grib Skov.
Patrol: Example: HUD AM523 Faartoft near Thisted.                                                                      German Radar Stations       Navigation
Intruder: Every time the target was a certain enemy activity, known or anticipated. There was radio contact between the plane and the base.
Bomb Germany: Germany is here Germany after World War I with East Prussia plus occupied parts of Poland. See the map German POW-Camps.
Not DK / Germany: BFO L9810 attacked Scharnhorst near Norway. Thalbitzer and Buchwald crashed in France and in the Netherlands.
SOE to Poland: SOE supplied the Polish resistance movement with weapons in spite of heavy losses. See HAL BB309 Slaglille and HAL JD156 Norsminde.
Minelaying: Mines made it dangerous to sail for the Germans. LAN NE167. Areas had code names from vegetables. Minelaying was called Gardening.
                       Minelaying areas * Magnetic mine * Mines 1939-40 * Mines 1940 * Mines 1939-45 * German troop carriers * RAF air attacks and mines
Anti Ship: HAL JP299 lost in the Skagerrak. B24 KH410 Liberator crashed near Aarestrup. B24 KK299 shot down by U-534 on 5 May 1945!
Sea Rescue: Only DOU BZ232 and STI EH952 were lost in the North Sea on this kind of operations.
Other: A weather plane BLE V5852 and some planes from Operational Training Units. SPI Mk XI was shot down on 9 May 1945 on a photo mission!
Unknown: This plane has 108 crew members! They are unknown, so their plane in the database is Unknown!
RAF +14, RNZAF -14: Actually, the 14 planes of the 75(NZ) Squadron RAF were of an RAF Squadron! Sqdn 075 is a name only used in the database.