Vernal Express | 1947-05-22 | Page 16 | Dutch Farm Youth to Replace U. S. Boy

Dutch Farm Youth To Replace U S So Boy Parents of Flier He Buried Boned in War Offer Home BINGHAMTON N Y Twenty Y Twenty Twenty- year two Hans Kloosterman ar rived here recently to to take the place of an American flier ler he bur led three years ago near his Holland farm house His arrival ended a chain of events that began on a late after after- afternoon noon in March 1944 when a crip crip- crip crippled pled Liberator bomber crashed Into a windmill close to the little town of Andega in tn the northern Nether lands Hans only 19 at the time and al al- al already ready a veteran member of the Dutch underground watched the big plane wobble over his home and crash He jumped on his bicycle and rushed to the aid of the man 11 crew as they staggered from the crumpled bomber With the help of fellow members of the underground all but the two pilots who were seriously In in- in injured injured were spirited away before the arrival of German patrols The two pilots however Hans Hani Han explained needed medical attention and could not be moved One John Kendrick a Mississippian had both legs amputated in a German hos- hos hospital hospital pital and the other Stephen Peter Judd of N Y died dieda a few hours after the crash and j was burled In the town of Wartena Hans who participated in the burial exchanged letters with the dead pilots pilot's parents Mr and Mrs Stephen Judd and promised promised to take care of their sons son's grave In later correspondence the Ju Judds learned that Hans was a dairy farmer and andin in gratitude for his kindness invited him to live on their acre 90 dairy farm near Binghamton He was net met a at I the pier by Rich Rich- Richard Richard ard Judd brother of the dead pilot plot and an marine ex-marine of the fourth division