Airman Repays Debt To Dutchman
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AUCKLAND, Jan. 2b. More tlian four years after his bombor was shot down-'by the Germans over Ilolland, a former Auckland airman has been given the opportunity of repaving a debt of gratitude to a nieni" ber of the thitch wartime underground movement who harboured him and attempted to spirit him to safety. The airman is Mr. Tc-rry Walker, now a reliabilitation carpentry trainee, of Mt. Kden, who inet the air liner Arkana at Whenuapai this morning to welcome a Dutchman 's son, Kocl Hagoort, aged 19, who has come to settle in New Zealand. Mr. Walker, who was navigation the bomber, was harboured for a fortnight in Utrech in the home of Mr. Hagoort who was a niember of the underground moveiuent. Tlien Mr. Walker was smuggled out of Ilolland to Belgium. Unfortunately he was cauglit by the Germans at Louvain and spent the rest of the war in Stalag 1 YJB. Mr. Walker did not hear from his frien'd, Mr. Hagoort, agaiu until this week when he received a letter from Utrech t. The Dutch youth has employme'nt on a farni at Warkworth.
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 January 1949, Page 2
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