Heinrich Boere was born to a Dutch father and German mother in Eschweiler, Germany, and moved to the Netherlands as a youth. he remembers his mother waking him up in the night in 1940 and telling him that Germany had invaded the Netherlands and he saw Stuka dive bombers overhead.
Instead of being afraid, his family was happy and his mother said that things would now be better.
At age 18, he saw a recruiting poster signed by Heinrich Himmler offering German citizenship and a possible police job after the war. He and 100 others showed up and he was one of only fifteen selected and was very proud of his accomplishment.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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