T-boned by a CMP

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

My grandfather returned to Holland in 1945, after living through a Japanese internment camp in Indonesia, broke but alive! His first job was to reposess Dutch assets from Germany, ranging from machinery to an elephant (which was taken from a zoo). He was given a Captain's rank and uniform, plus a driver in a VW Beetle. But I digress....

Hi Hanno

Would love to hear more of the story - please feel free to digress away (or do it in a new thread). I recently interviewed a 96 year old Dutchman who was with KLM in the years before the war in the Dutch East Indies. He escaped on the last flight out to Australia - a very dramatic story!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

Would love to hear more of the story - please feel free to digress away (or do it in a new thread).

Really need to sit down and talk with my dad and take notes.... Here's another part of my family history from my mother's side: Officier-vlieger J. Blok

H.