Thomas Sneum

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| name = Thomas Christian Sneum

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1917|05|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sønderho, Fanø, Denmark

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|02|03|1917|05|21|df=y}}

| death_place = Roskilde, Denmark

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| placeofburial = Sønderho Cemetery, Fanø{{cite web|title=Thomas Christian Sneum|url=http://www.gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=thomassneum|website=gravsted.dk|accessdate=13 April 2018|language=Danish}}

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Free Norwegian Air Force

| serviceyears = 1937-1945

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| rank = Flight lieutenant

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Thomas Christian Sneum (21 May 1917 Fanø - 3 February 2007 Roskilde) was a Danish flight officer who was among the first British agents in Denmark during World War II. His most spectacular achievement was when, in 1941, he photographed two German Freya radar stations on Fanø. In the night of 21–22 June 1941 he and pilot Kjeld Pedersen made a spectacular escape from Denmark to Great Britain in a D.H. Hornet Moth.{{cite book|last1=Jones|first1=R V|title=Most Secret War|date=2009|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-141-04282-4|pages=last 3 pages of Chapter 23}} This would later inspire Ken Follett to write his novel Hornet Flight.{{cite web|last1=Nielsen|first1=Carsten Egø|title=Behind Enemy Lines|url=http://www.historie-online.dk/boger/anmeldelser-5-5/2-verdenskrig-61-61/bag-fjendens-linjer|website=historie-online.dk|accessdate=13 April 2018|language=Danish}}

Sneum stated he had planned to assassinate Heinrich Himmler in February 1941 with a longbow from a room in Hotel d'Angleterre, but the plan was cancelled when Himmler failed to appear publicly.{{cite web|last1=Lauridsen|first1=Søren|title=Dane Wanted to Murder Top Nazi|url=https://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/article4317854.ece|website=ekstrabladet.dk|publisher=JP/Politikens Hus A/S|accessdate=13 April 2018|language=Danish|date=8 September 2008}}{{cite web|last1=Blüdnikow|first1=Bent|title=The Man Who Wanted to Shoot Himmler|url=https://www.b.dk/boeger/manden-der-ville-skyde-himmler|website=b.dk|publisher=Berlingske Media|accessdate=13 April 2018|language=Danish|date=4 June 2009}}