• Lockheed Hudson

Date of birth:

August 31st, 1921 (IJlst, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

July 6th, 1944 (The IJssel lake, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Field of Honour Loenen
Row: B. Grave: 393.

Nationality:

Dutch

Jan Bockma was a Dutchman who voluntarily reported at the French Foreign Legion in 1942. He was a secret agent for the BBO (Bureau Special Assignments), part of the SOE. In the service of the BBO he made his last flight in the Lockheed Hudson FK790 on 6 July 1944. On a secret sabotage mission, they were shot down by a German Night Fighter. The entire crew died in the crash.

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• - KAMP, R. VAN DE, Geen mannen, maar duivels!, QV Uitgeverij, Nijmegen, 2014.
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