Danish Airforce Supermarine Spitfire photographs
38 Supermarine HFIXe were in service from 1947 – 1955 as day fighters
3 Supermarine PRXI was in service from 1947 – 1955 in a photo reconnaissance role.
Spitfire MkVb RAF 234Sqn BL924 later sd by fighters nr Berck sur Mer AA Svendson KIA 24th Apr 1942 01
Danish representatives and pilots at the ceremony at RAF Station Ibsley, 10 April 1942 (The Royal Library)
Spitfire Vb BL924 AZ-G Skagen Ind. taxying before taking off at RAF Station Ibsley on 10 April 1942. Plt Off. Aksel Svendsen is at the controls. (The Royal Library)
Plt Off. Aksel Svendsen on top of the wing of Spitfire Vb BL924 AZ-G Skagen Ind at RAF Station Ibsley on 10 April 1942 (The Royal Library)
Profile depicting Spitfire Vb. BL924 as 'AZ-G' 'Skagen Ind.' in April 1942 © Mikkel Plannthin, 2008
Profile depicting Spitfire Vb. BL831 as 'AZ-K’ ‘Valdemar Atterdag’ in April 1942 © Mikkel Plannthin, 2008
Profile depicting Spitfire Vb. BL855 as 'AZ-U’ ‘Niels Ebbesen’ in April 1942 © Mikkel Plannthin, 2008
Later Flt Lt H. Pedersen in front of Handley Page Hampden 489/K (AN156) ‘King Kristian d. X’ in late 1942 or early 1943 (The Royal Danish Library)
Notes
- NA: FO 371/32430
- AIR 27/1439
- AVIA 15/2486
- AVIA 15/2486
- DNA: 10194-0180, 002, Det Danske Råd i London: Arbejdsudvalgets forhandlingsprotokol (1941-1945)
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- La Cour, V. (1945). Danmark under besættelsen. København: Westermann.
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Citations
- Christensen et al., 2006, pp. 89-111
- Sørensen, 2011
- Ibid.
- Plannthin, 2017
- Frit Danmark, 23 October 1941
- Boot and Sturtivant, 2005.
- NA: AVIA 15/2486.
- NA: AVIA 15/3725.
- Frit Danmark, 16 April 1942.
- La Cour, 1946.
- Thalbitzer, 1945.
- DNA: 10194-0180, 002
- According to the Operational Record Book of 489 Sqn, Pedersen flew Hage Pape Hampden 489/K (AN156) during five of eight operations while attached to the squadron.
- Operational information primarily based on the Squadron Operational Record Book (NA: AIR 27/1439)
- Ash and Foley, 2006
- Boot and Sturtivant, 2005
- Walpole, 2007
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