World War II food-drop airman, Dutch youth meet 64 years later

In 1945, Bob Lawrence was an Alabama boy turned World War II flyboy. Ruud Veltman was a youngster coming of age in war-weary Amsterdam. That their lives intersected that year was a matter of chance; that they met face-to-face in Greenville more than 60 years later was downright uncanny.


http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20091112/NEWS/911120320/1001/NEWS/World-War-II-food-drop-airman–Dutch-youth-meet-64-years-later

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