"spotters archive soesterberg"

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Sharp eye, Roel! Budgets were very tight in those years!

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If you think terrorist attacks are from recent years, here's some proof that Soesterberg Air Base already was attacked in the 1980's by young Osama. b L.. Spotter Bert Meijerink is just too late to stop him from firing of a SA-01 Treepole...



Unfortunately O succeeded to lauch. Victim is Commodore Wels who was shot down trying to prevent the attack. Luckily he survived the crash of his Spitfire

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Another group shot... Please feel free to fill in the names...



1st row: sitting Bert Meijerink (l) and Hans Drost to his right.

2nd row: most right Marcel Kradolfer?

[HansDrost]

Great addition Dick!

The group picture is a hard one.

I think the one with a cap was Bert Strubbe and the one on the right is indeed Marcel Kradolfer. Better known as "Pleeborstel".

Keep 'm coming!

[HansDrost]

And number 10.

Again featuring the main character in this series; D.J. Wels

[Key]

Seriously. I thought I had a big thumb.

[HansDrost]

Yeah, the thumb was huge at that time.

Here's number 11, with Henk de Ridder:

[warthog64]

due to his injury's from that time, he is still not able to walk....

can only take pic's lying down.....seen here at Dux. a couple of years ago.

We took him from his weelchair (me and a nice lady from the red cross who was with us to help him, and we left him here )

[Key]

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Hi Roel, was Henk trying to take a shot underneath the ropes surrounding the Bitte ein Bit Eagle?

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[HansDrost]

Story 12. This one needs some introduction and maybe it's a bit 'over the hill'
In the summer of 1979 Dick, Rick and I went to the Eifel. We had booked a Gasthof in a very, very, very small and desolate German village, called Hütterscheid? The man on the picture was Herr Koos. The "inhaber". He once told us that he had also been to Holland. About 35 years earlier! Hmmm.

[CR-74050]

Geweldig! Ik herinner me nog veel vliegen die ons 's ochtends bij het ontbijt verwelkomden in dit **** resort. Gelukkig bracht Herr Koos' z'n dochter ons 's ochtends met de auto naar das Zentrum van Bitburg (anders waren we daar volgens mij nooit gekomen) en dan vervolgens met de lokale Conexxion bus naar Spangdahlem.

[Key]

Still...

Thx,
Erik

[HansDrost]

Number 13. The same 1979 holiday. This time around Ramstein. I guess this is Burg Nanstein in Landstuhl with Ramstein AB in the back. Again featuring Dick Wels.

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Gelukkig droeg ik een anti-stralingsbril. Kan gelukkig nog wel spotten...

Dick