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American pilot thanks helpers in The Hague
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Week number 49-12
Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.
- Type:
- video
- Length:
- 01:42
- Publication date:
- 1 March 1949
- User:
- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
- Creator:
- Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Source:
- WEEKNUMMER491-HRE0001B7BF
During World War II several persons in Breda offered there help to the allied pilots that were stranded. One of these pilots has now send a supply of cigarettes as a thank-you. The American ambassador, dr. H. Baruch, hands them out. SHOTS: - ext. and int. of the hiding-places of pilotes and other rooms that were used by the Dutch resistance; - Dutch militairy policeman shows the border post where he handed over pilots to the Belgian underground during the war; - the cigarettes are handed out by Baruch in the town hall in the presence of mayor C.A. Prinsen; - one of the pilot helpers, mrs. Überfeld, receives flowers from Baruch.
