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02-02-23, 14:14

Hanno Spoelstra Hanno Spoelstra is offline

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Sandbags

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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Many thousands of volunteers came to help closing the breaches in the dykes. My dad was one of them, filling sandbags which were then carried by hand and placed in the breaches.

Who knows, maybe my Dad is one of the guys in these photos:
http://hdl.handle.net/10648/af3190d6...8-003048976d84
http://hdl.handle.net/10648/af318a0a...8-003048976d84

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