Clandestine fligths UK-Denmark
 

December 26 1941 ltn.Helge Mehre of RNoAF 331 sqn. stationed on Orkney Islands RAF Skeabrea makes the following statement (translated from Norwegian) in his diary.
See Cato Guhnfeldts newly released book Spitfire Saga p 121.

" In all secrecy a small plane is expected 90M/H (probably in meaning of speed) to England from east, must not be shot at, friendly, as it weekly arrives from Denmark and piloted by a Danish pilot. Concerned that it happens..what a trip..risk. Fuel for 9-10 hours. "

Has anyone clues what this is?
Plane?
Organisation?
Destination?
Where from in Denmark?
Etc.

Re: Clandestine fligths UK-Denmark
 

Never heard of this before. But that is not to say that it did not happen.

The epic flight was Sneum/Pedersen's in July 1941, cf. http://www.danishww2pilots.dk/profil...?alpha=s&id=87

The main route for people and intelligence to come cross the North Sea was via Stockholm.

Mikkel

Re: Clandestine fligths UK-Denmark
 

I think the Hornet Moth that flew to the UK in the summer of 1941 was the last such flight to freedom from Denmark, so that doesn't really explain the diary entry for Dec 1941

Re: Clandestine fligths UK-Denmark
 

Larry
No, it was not the last, but it was the most famous. A pilot by the name of Peer Perch crossed the North Sea from Tistrup to a farm near Edinburgh in October 1943 in a Gibsy Moth. To his disappointment he was neither accepted in the ATA or RAF, nor in the British Army.

This is a photo of Sneum (right) and Perch in the Danish Club in London in 1943.
http://images.kb.dk/image?id=dh001296

Mikkel

Re: Clandestine fligths UK-Denmark
 

Skeabrae seems an awful long way north for a light aircraft from Denmark. Edinburgh or Newcastle would seem more obvious.

Re: Clandestine fligths UK-Denmark
 

Skeabrae is only slightly north of the northern tip of Denmark. Depending on how good his dead-reckoning across the North Sea was, he might have been lucky to hit any part of Scotland.

If he had been a few miles north of that track, the next stop is North America!