2nd Lt Sidney Willig

2 Jul 1918 – 17 Nov 2000 ◐

2nd Lt Sidney Henry Willig (O-2060427), navigator, United States Army Air Forces

About: The navigator of a Flying Fortress that came down at Nieuw-Milligen on 21 November 1944, one of the four Americans of its crew whom the historian Noordman puts in the barn at Harskamp with Murphy on 24–25 November. Hidden by Dutch helpers with his bombardier, Harold Bonekat, he reached the Allies at Appel on 18 April 1945.

Unit or role: USAAF; 2nd Lt, O-2060427, navigator, 338th Squadron, 96th Bomb Group (E&E 2976, PDF pp. 1, 11 and 14; MACR 10416, image 002).

Where: 20 Dahl Court, Brooklyn, New York, his home address in 1944–45 (E&E 2976, PDF p. 11); in hiding around Stroe, Barneveld, Voorthuizen, Nijkerk and Appel from November 1944 to April 1945 (the same report, Appendix C), and at Kootwijkerbroek and Nijkerkerveen by the helpers' forms (below).

Evidence: ✓ his own escape and evasion report, E&E 2976, with the I.S.9 (WEA) report 1/391 of his interview of 19 April 1945 and the American report of 22 April (US National Archives 5557575), whose list of helpers covers Harold Bonekat too; ✓ the Missing Air Crew Report of 24 November 1944 (MACR 10416); ✓ the forms of the Dutch helpers who hid him, US National Archives, RG 498 (below); ⚠︎ the barn rests on Noordman, p. 285, alone, who quotes Hardy and adds the barn's owner and the names, giving no source; ◐ his later life rests on Who's Who in the East, p. 1074, matched to him (below).

✓ His report has him born on 2 July 1918, of 20 Dahl Court, Brooklyn, New York: "Druggist & Teacher" in peacetime and "27 months" of service on the American form (E&E 2976, PDF p. 11, read on the image); "Drug Clerk", "26 months" and "9 Missions" on the I.S.9 (WEA) form, where he speaks "French, Dutch and German passably" (PDF p. 14, read on the image). The Missing Air Crew Report gives his next of kin as his wife, at the same address (MACR 10416, image 006, read on the image).

◐ The IWM American Air Museum's entry for him, which lists "self" among its sources, begins "Assigned Oct 1944. 10 bombing missions into Germany and then last was shot down over occupied Holland, 21 November 1944." (the entry).

• ✓ The aircraft. The Missing Air Crew Report has B-17G 42-102554, nicknamed "Jean O", of the 338th Squadron, 96th Group, left AAF Station 138 on 21 November 1944 for "Osnabruck, Germany" with nine aboard, Willig the navigator; all nine are typed "MIA" (MACR 10416, image 002). Its remarks, of 24 November, report an aircraft "seen by a fighter to land in a woods approximately 10 miles SW of Apeldoorn", whose crew "are believed to be safe", and say it was "apparently either A/c #792 (Lt. Chrismon, 413th) or a/c #554 (Lt. Worden, 338th)" (image 003).
• ✓ His own account.
  • The American form has "B-17, Snetterton Heath, England, 21 Nov 1944, 0800 hours", and he came down at "Milligen, Holland, 21 Nov 1944, 1330 hours" (E&E 2976, PDF p. 11, read on the image).
  • The I.S.9 form has "MILLIGEN at about 1330 hrs 2 NOV 1944." [sic], his parachute "Discarded in the forest.", and, asked whether all secret papers and equipment were destroyed, the "G" box "not destroyed." (PDF p. 14, read on the image).
  • The casualty appendix has his B-17 "headed for a bombing run over MERSEBURG, GERMANY", which "was shot up by flak, and the pilot made a crash landing at MILLINGEN, HOLLAND (E8564)." (Appendix D, PDF p. 9, read on the image).
• ✓ The crew, as he gave it.
  • The casualty appendix, which gives names, ranks and dispositions but no crew positions, has Lloyd R. Worden, E. Torres, Griesel, Herlihy and Wells "P/W"; the positions are on the American form (PDF p. 11); Bob Blackburn and Ray Haydel each "Dutch told Lt. WILLIG Apr 1945 he was evading in AMERSFOORT, HOLLAND (E4097)."; and Harold Bonekat "RTD" (Appendix D, PDF p. 9).
  • The I.S.9 form has Worden, Torres, Griesel, Herlihy and Wells "Believed captured.", Blackburn and Haydel "Evading.", himself "Narrator.", and Bonekat "Successfully Evaded. See Report 1/392." (PDF p. 14).
  • The German capture reports in the MACR are for Griesel, Wells, Torres and Worden, taken near the landing place by the Apeldoorn–Amersfoort road, three of them on 21 November (Torres's gives no date); there is none for Willig (MACR 10416, images 009–012).

⚠︎ Noordman's barn at Harskamp, 24–25 November 1944. James Hardy's report is the eyewitness. On the night of 24 November he and Murphy were taken by "a member of the Dutch Underground (WILLEM's brother) to a barn somewhere in the OTTERLO area":

In the barn I met Pte. DAVISON, an R.A.F. Officer, and four U.S. Aircrew, none of whose names I know. I understand that the Americans were members of a Fortress crew and had been shot down on 21 Nov. We stayed there overnight and the following evening DAVISON, MURPHY and I were taken by DICK and another member of the Underground to a nearby farm.

— MI9 · Pte J. Hardy · escape report · Hardy's report

The names are Noordman's, who follows Hardy's words with the barn's owner and the men in it:

The barn was J. van Essen's, Westerhuisweg, Harskamp. The RAF officer was John Craven. The four American airmen were the co-pilot Bob Blackburn, the navigator Sidney H. Willig, the bomb-aimer Harry Bonekat and the flight engineer and gunner Ray Haydel. These men stayed in our country until the liberation.

Dutch originalDe schuur was van J. van Essen, Westerhuisweg, Harskamp. De RAF-officier was John Craven. De vier Amerikaanse vliegers waren copiloot Bob Blackburn, navigator Sidney H. Willig, bommenrichter Harry Bonekat en werktuigbouwkundige en schutter Ray Haydel. Deze mannen zijn tot aan de bevrijding in ons land gebleven.

— Noordman, Schuilplaats de Veluwe, p. 285

Noordman gives no source for the names. The night is told on the barn, on Pegasus II and Roekel, and the barn and the men in it are on J. van Essen's and John Craven's pages; Leslie Davison was the British private Hardy met there.

◐ What his own report says of those days. His and Bonekat's list of helpers mentions neither a barn nor British paratroopers. For the days around the barn it has:

• "VAN EE, lived near STROE, HOLLAND (Z6101)", a farmer of 40, who "Provided food and shelter 23 Nov 1944"; the I.S.9 appendix has him "WOLVERSEVEN. STROE,BARNEVELD", "Farmer who contacted Underground. Kept us for one day. 23 NOV 44." (E&E 2976, Appendix C, p. 1, PDF p. 7; I.S.9 Appendix C, PDF p. 16; both read on the images). Gerrit van Ee's page sets out why this farmer is not Gerrit of Kootwijkerbroek.
• Teus Roskamp, described as a veterinarian ("Is veterinarian."), on a farm "on the outskirts of BARNAVELD, HOLLAND (E5496)", who "Furnished food and shelter 24 Nov 1944, and money for food to subsequent helpers." (Appendix C, p. 1, PDF p. 7).
• an unidentified man in a "small house off road from STROE, HOLLAND (Z6101) to HARSKAMP, HOLLAND (E6595)", who "spent 10 mos. in German concentration camp for trying to help Jewish Dutch girl escape", and "Provided shelter and [struck-out word] meals 28 Nov - 2 Dec 1944." (Appendix C, p. 2, PDF p. 8, read on the image).

It has Roskamp's shelter on a farm outside Barneveld on 24 November, the night Hardy has four American airmen of a Fortress crew in the barn with him and Murphy (the date is Hardy's; the names and the place, Harskamp, are Noordman's); it does not say whether they moved on that evening, and it names no barn, so whether he was in the barn rests on Noordman. ◐ The IWM entry's account, very probably his own (below), has "Evaded capture 9 days and then made contact with Dutch underground." (the entry).

The report he and Bonekat gave on their return lists their helpers with dates (E&E 2976, Appendix C, pp. 1–2, PDF pp. 7–8, read on the images; the same list, typed again, is on PDF pp. 2–4). After Van Ee, Roskamp and the man off the Stroe road (above):

• ✓ "DICK" and his men.
  • "DICK" "Provided new civilian clothing, made arrangements for helpers and food. Furnished tobacco, [struck-out word] transportation, and contacts." The report describes him as 25, "speaks High Holland Dutch and good English. Wore a British uniform. Was head of underground in area of BARNAVELD."
  • ◐ He is probably Dick Kragt, the British agent whose cover name was "Frans Hals" (Noordman, p. 294), who worked from "the BARNEVELD area" (his report, p. 3), and under whom, with Joop van Amstel, Boeree has the paratroopers gathered, from their base at Broekhuizen's in Kootwijkerbroek (Boeree, p. 199); the report gives no surname; against it, the report's age of 25 is two years under Kragt's (born 18 July 1917, Noordman, p. 110), who was 27 in November 1944.
  • The same help is given for "ROSKAMP, JOHN, BARNAVELD, HOLLAND", "He is "DICK's" right-hand man."; for "EP", "One of "DICK's" helpers."; and for Peter van Harn (below), "LOU" and "WILLEM".
• ◐ "LOU", Nijkerk. "6', 160 lbs., 26-27 yrs. old, lean. Looked like GARY COOPER. Spoke English well. Brother had been a Dutch flier who was killed in aerial action." Whether he is Huib de Jongh, the "Lou" of other helpers' forms, is open: see his page.
• ✓ "WILLEM", "Is known to residents of NIJKERK.": "He was principal supplier of meat. Also furnished shaving equipment and books."
• ✓ Barneveld, 7 to 16 December. "OOSTERBROCK, J., WENCOPPERWEG 14, BARNAVELD": "Furnished shelter and [struck-out word] food 7 - 16 Dec 1944."
• ✓ Voorthuizen, 19 December to 9 February. "VANDER MUNT, CORNELIUS, LANGEZUIDERWEG 38, VOORTHUIZEN, BARNAVELD": "Provided food, shelter, tobacco, haircuts, 19 Dec 1944 - 9 Feb 1945."
• ✓ Nijkerk, 9 February to 17 March. "VAN DER KEMP, WOUTER, SCHOOLSTRAAT, NIJKERK, HOLLAND", a small milk farm with two cows: "Furnished food and shelter 9 Feb - 17 Mar 1945."
• ✓ Appel, 23 March to 18 April. "VEDDER, DIRK, APPEL, HOLLAND", who "Owned a small milk-farm": "Furnished food and shelter 23 Mar - 18 Apr 1945."

The I.S.9 appendix of his interview of 19 April 1945 has five of them as the interviewer typed them up at his own interview, in the plural, "Kept us for one day", "Gave us shelter and food": Van Ee on 23 November, J. Oosterbrock "( 2 DEC 44 - 16 DEC 44 )", Cornelius van der Munt "( 19 DEC 44 - 9 FEB 45 )", Wouter van der Kemp "( 9 FEB 45 - 17 MAR 45)" and Dirk Vedder of Appel "(23 MAR 45- 18 APR 45 )" (E&E 2976, PDF p. 16, read on the image).

The helpers' own forms, written for the Americans in 1945–46, fill this in. Each is on the helper's file in the US National Archives, RG 498.

To Barneveld, the walk from Voorthuizen.

• ✓ Carl van Haeften's memo of his trips has "15th trip: 8 km. Moore, Mrs. S.H. Willis, Bonekat, Brock Christie, Fuller walking from P. Versteeg, Welgelegenweg 5, Voorthuizen to Oosterbroek, Wencopperweg 14, Voorthuizen." (his memo, p. 28).
  • ◐ "Mrs. S.H. Willis" is probably Willig: Van Haeften's list of names has "15 Mrs. S.H. Willis (naam vrouw.), 20 Dahl Court, Brooklyn, New York.", Willig's home address and the one the MACR gives for his wife; "naam vrouw." is Dutch for "wife's name", so Van Haeften marks the entry as a wife's name standing in for the airman, though the memo on p. 28 does not say who she is (p. 31).
• ✓ Jan Oosterbroek of Wencopperweg 14, Barneveld, "Provided shelter for allied personnel for a period of 10 days each": "W.M. Moore", "S. H. Willig" and "H. W. Bonekat", USAAF, and "V. Brock Christie" and "F. E. Fuller", RAF (his file, p. 3, image-checked).
• ◐ G. W. van der Woerd's form of 24 August 1945 has the same five: "W.M.Moore", USA, shot down "Nov 44" at "Milligen", hidden "Dec. 44", received from "P. Versteeg, Stroe" and passed on to "Harskamp", with "S.H.Willis", "Bonekat", Brock Christie and Fuller on the lines below in ditto marks (his file, p. 18; the carbon is faint and was read from enhanced crops).

✓ Writing for David van Beetz on 28 May 1946, Van Haeften confirmed the same walk:

Second transport;Willy M.Moore,S.H.Willis,H.W.Bonekat, W.Brock Christie and Frank E.Fuller this was from P.Versteeg,Welgelegenweg 5 Voorthuizen to Oosterbroek,Wencopperweg 22 Voorthuizen.The distance was about six km and the transport on foot.

Both transports were as far as I remember in Nov.1944.

— C. F. van Haeften · letter for David van Beetz · 28 May 1946 · Van Beetz's file, p. 15

Kootwijkerbroek and Barneveld. Two of these forms give dates (F. W. de Ruyter van Steveninck, Ryk Hendriks); the others give none.

• ✓ Aalt van den Braak of Walhuisweg 10, Kootwijkerbroek, "Provided housing, food and clothing for allied personnel for periods of approximately 2 days", among them "2d Lt. Willig, O-2064027, USAAF" (his table has "0-2060427") and "2d Lt. Bonekat, O-777298, USAAF", with Capt. Pare of the Glider Pilot Regiment, 2nd Lt. G. Ferrell and Sgt David Desantis (his summary, p. 4; his table, p. 3; image-checked).
• ✓ E. Baatje of Laageinderweg 12, Kootwijkerbroek, lists "Lt. Sidney H. Willig, Brooklyn U.S.A." and "Lt. Harold W. [Bonekat], Derby Pa. U.S.A.", shot down at "Nw. Millingen", 7 days each, received from "Joop and Dick" (his table, p. 5; his summary, p. 3, which types "Lt. Sidney H. Willing").
• ◐ F. W. de Ruyter van Steveninck sheltered "2 Am officers" for 10 days in December 1944; his table has two bare names, "Willig" and "Bonekat" (his file, pp. 3 and 5).
• ◐ Ryk Hendriks's table of the men he had from the underground of Kootwijkerbroek has "L.N. Bonekat USA, Radio Kootwyk, 15-3-45, 10 days" and "L.N. Willink USA" alike; the initials are not theirs and Willink is not his spelling, so the two are probably the airmen (his table, p. 3).

◐ "Joop and Dick", from whom Baatje and Cornelis van de Munt (below) received him, are probably Joop Piller and Dick Kragt, the "Joop van Amstel" (Piller's cover name, by Noordman's picture caption, fig. 60, p. 113) and "Frans Hals" under whom, by Boeree's chronicle of Ede, the paratroopers were gathered, from their base at Broekhuizen's in Kootwijkerbroek (Boeree, p. 199); neither form gives a surname.

✓ Peter van Harn, "HENNEY". The report has "VAN HARN, PETER, BARNAVELD, HOLLAND. Organization name was "HENNEY.", who "Used to be a Dutch mounted policeman", with help "Same as for "DICK."" (E&E 2976, Appendix C, p. 2, PDF p. 8). Van Harn's own list of the men he helped has "H. Bonekat Lt. U.S.A." but not Willig, and the letter attached says "This man transported many pilots by bicycle" (his list, p. 3).

Voorthuizen, 19 December to February.

• ◐ Gerritje, "Wid. v.d. Munt" of Langezuiderweg 38, the address Cornelis van de Munt gives on his own form, wrote "I sheltered 3 USA pilots at the above address from 19 Dec 1944 till 10 Febr. 1945" (her form, p. 3, received by mail on 17-5-46). She named among the helpers "Roskam, Stroe, Gem. Barneveld" (same page), and Teunis Roskam of Stroe's own form lists "Wid. Kees van de Munt" of the Lange Zuiderweg, Voorthuizen, "3 airmen 6 weeks." (his form, p. 2); ◐ that Teunis is Willig's Teus Roskamp is not shown (Teus Roskamp).
  • Cornelis's own form of 17 July 1945 has him married ("yes") with seven children, aged 29 to 13, and his next of kin as "Gerritje van Ee", 50 (his p. 3, read on the image). Naaste bloedverwant means next of kin, not wife, but she is very probably his wife; "Wid." would then make her his widow by 17 May 1946, when her form was received. No record of his death is held.
  • Her table has "S.H. Willig", "Harold W. Bonekat" and "Wiley M. Moore", USA, shot down "Oct. 44" at Millingen, hidden "19.12.44", 54 days (her table, p. 4).
• ✓ Cornelis van de Munt's own table has "2nd Lt. S.H. Willig, Brooklyn, Nav. Off.", with "2nd Lt. William Bonekat, bomb. off." and "Willy Mae Moore T/Sgt. radio", hidden "19 Dec. 44", 50 days, received from "Joop and Dick" (his file, p. 4).

Nijkerkerveen and Appel.

✓ Wouter van de Kemp of Nijkerkerveen, on his form of 14 August 1945:

Second two: Bonnicat and Willig, who were Americans, one was a bomb aimer and the other a navigator. They came in the end of Februari 1945 and stayed untill about 10th April. Were brought by Willem Kuyt and collected by Willem and van de Kemp.

— Wouter van de Kemp · helper's questionnaire · 14 August 1945 · his form, p. 6

The Americans' summary of his file, dated 24 October 1945, has "Sidney H.Willig USA" and "Harold W.Bouchat USA" among the six he sheltered (p. 2, read on the image).

✓ Dirk Vedder of Schoenlapperweg, Nijkerk (his p. 2, OCR only), has "H. Bonekat" and "S.H. Willic", USA, hidden "17.3.45", 30 days, received from "H. Bulthuis, Nijkerk", and "Was liberated on 17 Apr 45." (his table, p. 4).

✓ He "Rejoined Allied Forces 18 April 1945.", "At. APPEL, HOLLAND." (E&E 2976, PDF p. 1, read on the image).

• The I.S.9 (WEA) interviewed him on 19 April 1945; its certificate says he had been "briefly" interrogated ("fully" struck out) and had signed a security certificate, and "He should/should not/be re-interrogated" with "should not" struck out (PDF pp. 12 and 16, read on the images).
• The American certificate says security reasons "do not" exist preventing his return to combat duty, that he was an evader "for a period of 148 days" (21 November 1944 to 18 April 1945 by PDF p. 1), and that he has been identified ("has" written in by hand, the printed "has/has not" struck), signed by Capt. Stone Christopher (PDF p. 6, read on the image).
• He signed the War Department's certificate on military information on "22 Apr. 45", "Place PARIS", with a note in another hand, "Fully interrogated" and, ◐ very probably, "Trianon Hotel" (PDF p. 10, read on the image).
  • The American report is dated 22 April 1945 (PDF p. 1).
  • The foot of the I.S.9 form has "Disposal: Paris" (PDF p. 15).
  • The handwritten line on the American certificate reads "Interviewed at" a word that is the same as the hotel's name on p. 10, ◐ very probably "Trianon", "22 Apr '45" (PDF pp. 6 and 10, read on the images at 400 dpi; the reading is ours).

◐ The IWM American Air Museum's entry for him gives this account in the first person. Its sources line includes "self", so it is very probably his own words, given to the museum at a date it does not say:

Evaded capture 9 days and then made contact with Dutch underground. Stayed in farm country being hidden sometimes indoors, sometimes outdoors. On several occasions avoided capture for work details by German troops who believed I was a Hollander. After many adventures and much frustration, I was taken out by a Canadian duo gaining information on German positions. Eventually flown to Paris and debriefed then to Camp Lucky Strike/Chesterfield, and then back to the US by C-boat May 1945.

— IWM American Air Museum · entry for Sidney H Willig, sources including "self" · the entry

The same entry lists "Air Medal w/ 1 OLC/ ETO Ribbon w/ Bronze Service Star" (same).

✓ The Dutch National Archives' list of American airmen who evaded capture after being shot down over the Netherlands, the "Atkinson list", has "319. Sidney H. Willig 21-11-1944 Appel Hollande", with Bonekat on the next line (the list, p. 6, read on the image; the OCR).

◐ Probably the same man, by four points. Who's Who in the East 1993-94 has "WILLIG, SIDNEY HENRY, lawyer, legal educator; b. N.Y.C., July 2, 1919" (the entry, p. 1074; the book is print-disabled, so this is the viewer's text of the entry, not the page image).

• The full name and the day and month of birth are his report's; the year is one later (1918 there).
• The entry has him "cert. tchr.; lic. pharmacist", the "Druggist & Teacher" of his report, and an AB from Brooklyn College in 1938.
• It gives his marriage in May 1943, to a wife with the first name and middle initial of the next of kin in the 1944 Missing Air Crew Report (MACR 10416, image 006); her name is left off this page.
• Its service line reads "Ist It. USAF, 1943-49, ETO." in the viewer's text (very probably "1st lt."); this is the weakest point, since his reports give no rank beyond 2nd Lt.

His career, from the same entry:

• "Sales rep. Winthrop Chem. Co., N.Y.C., 1947-52; regional sales mgr. Winthrop Breon Inc., N.Y.C., 1952-54; dir. regulatory affairs Winthrop Labs., N.Y.C., 195467" [sic, 1954-67]; "BS in Pharmacy, St. Johns U., Queens, N.Y., 1947", "MA, CUNY, 1952" and "JD, Bklyn. Law Sch., 1958"; "Bar: N.Y. 1950, Pa. 1969, U.S. Supreme Ct. 1973".
• "prof. Law Sch. Temple U., Phila., 1967-87, prof. Sch. of Dentistry and Pharmacy, 1967-85", and "of counsel Sterling Drug Inc., N.Y.C., 1967-86, assoc. gen. counsel, dir. litigation, 1987—".
• Among his books it lists Nurses Guide to the Law (1970) and Legal Aspect of Dentistry (1972).

◐ A Brooklyn College scholarship. A commencement programme (the item's tags give 1990) has a "Willig Memorial Scholarship: Seven hundred fifty dollars, by Sidney H. Willig, '38" (search snippet; neither the page nor the full text was opened). It matches the AB of 1938 above by name and class year only.

◐ His death. The US veterans' death index (BIRLS), as Open Archives serves it, has "Sidney H. Willig", a man, born on 2 July 1918, died on 17 November 2000, branch "Army" (the entry). The name and the birth date are those of his report; it is an index entry, with no service number or place.

• ✓ When they were shot down. 21 November 1944 in his report, the MACR and the German capture reports of 22 November (MACR 10416, images 009–012), which settle it; "2 NOV 1944" on his I.S.9 form (PDF p. 14), a typing slip beside its own "NOV 21, 1944" for the departure; "Oct. 44" on Gerritje v.d. Munt's table alone (her table).
• The target. "Osnabruck, Germany" in the Missing Air Crew Report (image 002); "MERSEBURG, GERMANY" in his report's Appendices C and D (E&E 2976, PDF pp. 7 and 9). The MACR is dated 24 November 1944, the appendices written from what the two men said in April 1945.
• His birth year. 1918 on both forms of his report (PDF pp. 11 and 14) and in the veterans' index; 1919 in Who's Who in the East.
• His service, missions and trade. 27 months and "Druggist & Teacher" on the American form (PDF p. 11); 26 months, "Drug Clerk" and 9 missions on the I.S.9 form (PDF p. 14); "10 bombing missions" in the IWM entry.
• Oosterbroek's. 7 to 16 December 1944 in the American appendix (PDF p. 8); 2 to 16 December in the I.S.9 appendix (PDF p. 16). Oosterbroek's own summary says "10 days each" (his file), which fits the American appendix's ten days and not the I.S.9's fifteen.
• The walk to Oosterbroek's. 8 km in Van Haeften's memo, about six km in his letter of 1946; Wencopperweg 14 in the memo and the report (Voorthuizen in the memo, Barneveld in Oosterbroek's file and the report), "22" in the letter; "in Nov.1944" in the letter, "Dec. 44" on Van der Woerd's form, and Oosterbroek's shelter from 2 or 7 December in the report (memo; letter; Van der Woerd).
• When he met the underground. Van Ee, "Farmer who contacted Underground", on 23 November in both appendices; "Evaded capture 9 days and then made contact with Dutch underground" in the IWM entry.
• Nijkerkerveen. 9 February to 17 March 1945 in the report, with Vedder from 23 March; "the end of Februari" to "about 10th April" on Van de Kemp's form; Vedder's own table "17.3.45", 30 days, "liberated on 17 Apr 45", against the report's 18 April (Van de Kemp; Vedder).
• Kootwijkerbroek in March. Hendriks has "L.N. Bonekat" and "L.N. Willink", probably the two men, from 15 March 1945 for 10 days, which falls across the report's move from Van de Kemp (17 March) to Vedder (23 March) (Hendriks).
• F. W. de Ruyter van Steveninck's ten days. "Sheltered in Dec. 1944 during 10 days 2 Am officers" on his file, where the report has Oosterbroek to 16 December and "VANDER MUNT" from 19 December (his file, p. 3); the report's dates leave no ten days in December for another house, and his form's two bare names are not dated, so whether it is these two is open.
• Van der Woerd's onward address. "Harskamp" on his form for the five, where the report has them go to Oosterbroek's (Van der Woerd).
• The helpers' names. "van de Munt" on Cornelis's own form, "VANDER MUNT, CORNELIUS" and "Cornelius VAN DER MUNT" in the report; "van de Kemp" and "van der Kemp" on Wouter's form, "VAN DER KEMP" in the report; this page writes "van de Munt" and "van de Kemp" except inside quotations.
• His name. Willis in Van Haeften's papers and Van der Woerd's form (Bonekat's report types "WILLIG S.H.", a G typed over another letter, which the OCR reads as WILLIS, E&E 2977, PDF p. 6, read on the image); Willic on Vedder's table; Willink on Hendriks's; Willing on the summary of Baatje's form; and his service number "O-2064027" on the summary of Van den Braak's, where the table has "0-2060427".
• His rank. 2nd Lt in the report and on the helpers' forms; "Ist It." (very probably 1st lt.) in Who's Who in the East, for service it gives as 1943 to 1949. No source says when he was promoted.
• ⚠︎ The barn. Noordman alone puts him in the barn of 24–25 November with Murphy, quoting Hardy, and the names are Noordman's alone; Hardy names none of the Americans, and his own report names no barn (above). It has Roskamp's "food and shelter 24 Nov 1944" on a farm outside Barneveld, the same night (E&E 2976, Appendix C, p. 1).

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