Både våbencontainere, faldskærmsagenter, radioudstyr, brevduer og flyveblade blev nedkastet fra flyene. Arbejdet for Royal Air Force og den engelske organisation Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) var dog meget risikabelt.
Inden året 1943 var omme, var mange af medlemmerne fra disse flybesætninger blevet dræbt efter nedskydning af deres fly på andre operationer til Polen, Holland og Frankrig.
Trods de betydelige menneskelige tab blandt både besætningsmedlemmer, faldskærmsagenter og modtagegrupper i Danmark blev nedkastningerne og de igangsatte sabotagetiltag medvirkende til at samarbejdspolitikken overfor tyskerne ophørte ved augustoprøret i 1943.
Med de nedkastede våben og agenter gik sabotagen mod besættelsesmagten fra 1943 ind i en ny fase med større og mere omfattende aktioner.
Foredraget kan holdes på dansk og engelsk.
Varighed: ca. 90 minutter.
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This lecture is available in English
Royal Air Force and the polish airmen over Denmark in 1943
Historian Jan Christensen tells the story of some of the Polish aircrews that flew to Denmark during the german occupation. The Polish pilots conducted weapon drops on Zealand, Funen, and Jutland, including three drops to the Hvidsten Group. Weapons containers, parachute agents, radio equipment, carrier pigeons, and leaflets were all dropped from the planes. The work for the Royal Air Force and the British organization Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) was very risky. By the end of 1943, many members of these aircrews had been killed after their planes were shot down during other operations to Poland, the Netherlands, and France.
Despite the significant human losses among both crew members, parachute agents, and reception groups in Denmark, the drops and the initiated sabotage measures contributed to the cessation of cooperation policy with the Germans during the August rebellion in 1943.
With the dropped weapons and agents, sabotage against the occupation forces entered a new phase in 1943, with larger and more extensive actions.