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These are some photo's sent by a fella I came to know in researching the crew of a B17 my great uncle who I never knew, was co-piloting a B17 that was lost in the north sea in 1943. The guys name is Louie and he lives in the Netherlands. He had adopted one of the crew members from the same B17 my great uncle was on. None of the crew were ever found after a return on their first mission. Only their names are listed on the Wall of the Missing at the US Cemetery in Margraten. Louie will send me photo's of the flowers he and his sons place at the name of my great uncle on veterans day. Louie and his gang have restored many of the US military vehicles left from the battle of Arnhem I believe they mostly came from. They go through great length to bring these historic US military vehicles back to original state, down to the most minute details. Louie has the 1942 Dodge WC series military truck and the 1942 Harley-Davidson WLA 45 military motorcycle. About 4 or 5 years ago he sent me an email about the excitement he was having on finding after much searching the original US military registration-title for his very H-D WLA he restored. It was like a having a pedigree to some top show dog and increased the value of it much more then it already is. These folks in the Netherlands celebrate veterans day better then most town and city's do here in recent years. They are so grateful to the men and women who helped in their liberation so long ago. It's good to know they still care.
This is Louie's email that explains the photo's. Forgive his spelling of English, and he ain't all that bad at it. It's allot better then my Dutch.
Hi Grant, it's allong time that we have spoke each other but here in the Netherlands is evrything oké.Great video that you have send me.Now it's here wintertime so the vehicles are in the barn.End of Februari we have a trip to Monfort (NL) that is a little town in Nothern-Limburg not far from Roermond to celebrate 70 years of freedom what is liberated by the British and the Americans.Past year we have a big trip to celebrate the 70 years of D-Day in Normandy, that was a great happening.We drove there from our home town to Normandy with tree Dodges and one Harley (the Harley was on my tyrailer behind the Dodge) in two days.Great trip.(see the photos).This year we have a big trip called The Final Push, this is about the liberation of the Nothern part of the Netherlands, you can see this on the internet.This is a trip of nearly two and a half weeks from Groesbeek to Groningen.Than we have some little trips to France and Belgium, these ar trips of the US 2nd AD where i participat with my Harley.So you see we have very busy with the next celebrations.I hope you and the Family are oké and we keep in touch.My special regards to you and your Family from Louie, Lisette, Vince, Glenn and Ray.
This is Louie's email that explains the photo's. Forgive his spelling of English, and he ain't all that bad at it. It's allot better then my Dutch.
Hi Grant, it's allong time that we have spoke each other but here in the Netherlands is evrything oké.Great video that you have send me.Now it's here wintertime so the vehicles are in the barn.End of Februari we have a trip to Monfort (NL) that is a little town in Nothern-Limburg not far from Roermond to celebrate 70 years of freedom what is liberated by the British and the Americans.Past year we have a big trip to celebrate the 70 years of D-Day in Normandy, that was a great happening.We drove there from our home town to Normandy with tree Dodges and one Harley (the Harley was on my tyrailer behind the Dodge) in two days.Great trip.(see the photos).This year we have a big trip called The Final Push, this is about the liberation of the Nothern part of the Netherlands, you can see this on the internet.This is a trip of nearly two and a half weeks from Groesbeek to Groningen.Than we have some little trips to France and Belgium, these ar trips of the US 2nd AD where i participat with my Harley.So you see we have very busy with the next celebrations.I hope you and the Family are oké and we keep in touch.My special regards to you and your Family from Louie, Lisette, Vince, Glenn and Ray.
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