22 October 2020
First version: 2020-06-04 Update: add Benjamins, Berhitoe, van Dalen, van Galen, Langelo, Receveur, de la Rosière, Scholten, Verspoor. #75jaar #remember #history #KNIL-ML #lucosu #122sqn #17varwa #medan #tjililitan #padang |
An important research goal into 122(NEI)Squadron is finding names and photos of the squadrons’s crew. The general history of this Dutch P-51 Mustang fighter squadron is hard to find. Compiling a list of names of it’s crew is a challenge.
122(NEI)Squadron is estimated to have had 150 crew servicing 17 P-51 Mustang. 17 VARWA (C-Patrol), a reconnaissance and artillery observation unit equipped with Piper Cups [1] [2], had 50-70 crew on Sumatra. Both units where based on airbase 11VB Polonia Medan.
Thanks to pictures and information of several people [3], we are now starting to put names on faces. Faces who would probably have been forgotten. Generally speaking the Dutch don’t like to be remembered about their wars. It also seems difficult for the Dutch State to acknowledge that they extended WOII with 8 years [4] [5].
248 names of 'Luchtvaart Commando Sumatra' (LuCoSu) served between 1945 - 1950 for 122(NEI)Squadron, 17 Squadron VARWA, 7CieVT, 120sqn, 121sqn, 11VB Polonia and 13VB Padang have been found sofar [6].
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In the past few years I collected known names and relevant information in an OpenOffice [8] spreadsheet. An ongoing proces.
The database is filtered (using pivot). URL’s to the portraits[7] and photo page are transformed into a format Asciidoc can use.
I use Piwigo[9] as my photoalbum.
And exported into a .csv:
image:https://www.roelbazuin.nl/photos/galleries/122sqn_portrets/Allards/b25_n5-261_guit_en_allarts.jpg[,150] Allards, mechanic, 122sqn, https://www.roelbazuin.nl/photos/index.php?/tags/13-allards[photos^] image:https://www.roelbazuin.nl/photos/galleries/122sqn_portrets/Asjes/P51_bastiaans.jpg[,150] Asjes, pilot, 122sqn, https://www.roelbazuin.nl/photos/index.php?/tags/10-asjes[photos^]
The resulting .csv file is used in this document like so:.
|=== include::includes\122_portraits.csv[] |===
After rendering with Jbake, the .csv transforms into a 6 column table with portraits and names.
