3 Replies Latest reply on May 3, 2016 2:45 PM by Jason Atkinson

Looking for someone who will help to copy files.

René Bosma Apr 7, 2016 2:35 PM

Dear fellow researchers/Historians,

My name is René Bosma en I live in the little Dutch town of Oosterwolde. About 5 years I have been investigating the air war over the Northern part of the Netherlands. It is my main objective to collect information about the aircraft and the airmen which came down over the province of Friesland, The Netherlands during the Second World War. I consider it very important to keep the memory of the air war alive, especially the many flyers paid with their lives for our Freedom.

A lot of information that is very useful to make interesting stories are stored in the NARA At College Park. Sadly is not possible for me to make a visit to the College Park archives. That's why I looking for someone who want to be helpful to make good quality pictures of files.

I hope someone would be helpful. Or someone knows someone who can help.

Thank you all in advance and kind regards,
René

Re: Looking for someone who will help to copy files.

Ann Abney Apr 8, 2016 7:43 AM (in response to René Bosma)

Hi Rene -

NARA provides a list of independent researchers for hire. You can find them here: Independent Researchers for Hire. These are not National Archives staff members, but researchers who complete requests like yours for a fee.

Conversely, if you are able to narrow down what you want through the Catalog and emails with the reference staff at the National Archives in College Park (archives2reference@nara.gov), you may be able to put in a reproduction order to receive copies of the materials.

I would suggest, regardless of which route you take, to email our reference staff at College Park to help you narrow down where exactly would be best to look.

Best of luck in the hunt - your topic sounds interesting and very important as an aspect of Dutch history.
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Jason Atkinson May 3, 2016 2:45 PM (in response to René Bosma)

You might also be interested in this information related to Dutch citizens that helped downed Allied pilots.
https://wwii-netherlands-escape-lines.com/helpers-of-allied-airmen/dutch-helper-list/u-s-national-archives-list-of-dutch…
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Rebecca Collier May 3, 2016 3:05 PM (in response to René Bosma)

For information on the downed aircrews, you may want to check the Missing Aircrew Reports MACRs. The Air Force has an online database at http://www.armyairforces.com/Data/MACR.aspx that is searchable by date and broad location. Once you have the MACR number, the MACRs have been digitized and are available via fold3 at https://www.fold3.com/documents/28597484/missing-air-crew-reports-wwii/. There may be a fee for using the images. For the crewmen that survived and were not captured, there may be an Escape & Evasion Report (NAID 305270 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/305270) available in the National Archives Catalog. Many of the reports have been scanned so you do not need to come here in person. In the middle of the description (see link above), there is a button "Search within this series". Click on it and provide the name of the person. If the crewman died, the information about him may be contained in his Individual Deceased Personnel File (IDPF). IDPFs dated after 1939 are in the legal custody of the Army. For the exact location of these files, please contact John Hall, Army Records Officer, Army Records Management Division, 7701 Telegraph Road, Alexandria, VA 22315. The telephone number is 703-428-6437 and email address is john.a.hall26.civ@mail.mil. Please request the name of the facility, transfer numbers, and box numbers. Hope this helps! Thank you for using the History Hub!
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