WW2 | Remembering V-E Day

Charlie Miner, Jr. at the Vero Beach, Fla. Veterans
Memorial. Photo by JT Marlin.

Amsterdam, Holland, May 3, 2018 –The East Hampton Star just published my "Guest Words" on the death of Charlie Miner and the ending of the war in Europe, 73 years ago this coming week. 

I plan to attend the May 4 Remembrance Day in Overveen, for the ending of the Nazi Occupation of Holland. 

This Occupation took the lives of many of my Dutch-born mother's relatives, who fought against Hitler in the military or in the Resistance. Her brother Willem was piloting a Halifax III for the RAF when he was shot down over Laval, France during the week of D-Day in June 1944.

Army Major and pediatrician Dr Robert Wack wrote a book focusing on Willem. It is called Time Bomber and it is published by Boissevain Books.