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Samuel France Showalter

Showalter was a co-pilot of the bomber that crashed into the Spaarndam neighbourhood, of which Anne Frank wrote about in her diary.

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  • Samuel France Showalter

Samuel Showalter (1919-2004) was a co-pilot[1] of the bomber that crashed into the Spaardam neighbourhood on 22 March 1944.[2] He ejected from the aircraft above Amsterdam-Noord, landed on a roof in Bremstraat and broke an ankle. A German soldier fired shots at him during his arrest. Anne Frank writes that German soldiers fired at the pilots, to the anger of the Amsterdam citizens.[3] Fifty years later to the date, he paid another visit to Bremstraat.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b Emiel Ros, Bommenwerper op Spaarndammerbuurt 1944. Ros heeft zijn onderzoek naar deze vliegtuigcrash op 20 maart 2014 mondeling toegelicht.
  2. ^ Anne refers to him as: the crew who had jumped out. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 23 March 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  3. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 23 March 1944, in: The Collected Workds.