Date of birth:

December 7th, 1899 (Oudenhoorn)

Date of death:

March 1942 (Loeboek Kelihat N.I.))

Buried on:

Memorial Fallen (Former) Oudenhoorn Residents

Nationality:

Dutch

Cornelis Blaak was a captain with KLM and was en route to the Dutch East Indies during the German invasion in May 1940 and got stuck there. He then started flying for the Indian branch of KLM, the KNILM. When the Japanese invaded in December 1941, the flights took on a different character. By order of the military authorities, evacuation flights had to be made to Australia from February 1942. The civilian aircraft thus also became targets for the Japanese. On the night of 16-17 February 1942, the DC3 Dakota PK-AFZ he flew had to make an emergency landing on South Sumatra, near Palembang, during a flight from Broome (Aus) to Bandung. The emergency landing ended well but the crew fell into the hands of the Japanese and handed over to the Japanese. Cornelis Blaak probably died as a result of injuries inflicted by the locals and his body was never recovered. None of the crew members survived the war. Cornelis Blaak's name appears on monuments in Heemstede and Oudenhoorn, where a street is also named after him.

Do you have more information about this person? Inform us!

• Photo: Cornelis Blaak | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  
• - OGS Gedenkboek 43, Oorlogsgravenstichting.
  - Cornelis Blaak | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  

Helaas geen map gevonden.