In 1944, Ingrid was a 8 year old child living near The Hague in Holland when she found a Royal Canadian Air Force cap after a dogflght over their homes. She kept the cap for 50 years and to learn that the pilot wrote a book which he describes being shot down over her village.
They met 50 years later and she returns the beloved cap
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In 1944, Ingrid was a 8 year old child living near The Hague in Holland when she found a Royal Canadian Air Force cap after a dogflght over their homes. She kept the cap for 50 years and to learn that the pilot wrote a book which he describes being shot down over her village. They met 50 years later and she returns the beloved cap
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Mrs. Ingrid Lambermont was born in The Hague, Netherlands and her daughter who lives in Oshawa arranged for this recording of the story and the audio slideshow below.
My name is Ingrid.Lambermont, I was born in Holland in 1932. On my 8th birthday, in May 1940, the Nazi army marched into our quiet middle-sized town of Zeist (near Utrecht, Amsterdam, Arnhem? near everything, Holland is small.)
Wartime, for us children, was both fearful and exciting. We had no idea what the next 5 years would have in store for us. It was no picnic to grow up in an occupied country. In addition to the dangers and fearing for our lives, we also learned to live with huge shortages of food, clothing, shelter and everything else.
The first thing my father did in the summer of 1940 was dig up the entire back yard and turn it into a vegetable garden. He also planted fruit trees, b...
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