Stuart Green met descendants of the Dutch family who probably sheltered his father in 1942.
Stuart Green met Louis Wester and his daughter Maria , descendants of Marijte Wester Van Schagen, on the 80th anniversary the crash
A man whose father was shot down during World War Two said "it was a privilege" to meet descendants of the Dutch woman believed to have hidden him. Alan Green's Stirling bomber was hit over the Netherlands on 21 June 1942, killing three of the eight crew.Stuart Green, from Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, met Marijte Wester Van Schagen's family on 21 June, on the 80th anniversary of the crash.Alan Green was 22 when he was shot down over the Netherlands in 1942 - it was the second time he survived being shot down
Flt Lt Alan Green, who was from Coventry, joined the RAF in 1940 and was based at RAF Marham near King's Lynn.She ran a safe house for people hiding from the Germans, according to her grandson Louis Wester. Mr Green said: "A few months ago, I received an email out of the blue from Louis suggesting the airman she sheltered on 22 June was either my father or one of the other survivors from the crash."Mr Green laid flowers at a memorial at the crash site, which remembers the three men who diedHis father - who died when Mr Green was 12 - described how he was sheltered by a number of Dutch farmers before he was captured, spending the rest of the war a prisoner.
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