Brunswick GermanyRCAF Sgt. (Air Gunner - Rear) Wharf, Norman Gordon (R/310803) - hospitalized first, brought to theRom. Cath. Hospital (RKZ) in nearby Groningen city, on the Verlengde Herenweg; he was a patient there for many and many weeks, because of his burns.
Later he was taken POW by the Germans, transported to Germany, to an interrogation camp likely (near Oberursel city, in the Hessen region of Germany ?). However, he was "˜invited' before at the Luftwaffe airfield Leeuwarden, in Friesland, were he got a "˜pretty Luftwaffe show', and also in the local HQ of the Luftwaffe, in the (captured) Hotel Amacitia, on the Nieuweweg, in Leeuwarden's inner city.
Aafter about 9 months of care and prisoning, he became repatriated, already before the end of the war, because of his long recovery treatment, the high medical costs of it !; therefore he was aboard the Swedish ocean liner M.S. "˜Gripsholm', which "˜ferried to home' many sick and disabled POW's, via liberated Marseille habour city (in France) to Southampton port city likely (in the UK), under the International Red Cross Committee flag. That happened in early February 1945. Maybe he was hospitalized again then in Great-Britain, or soon back in Canada (?).
On 5 Nov. 1945 he was back in Canada and married Bernice McKinnon, at Victoria city, in British Columbia. They had 2 children likely. However, they got divorced, and he married later Hilda Mary Wharf (nee Hartley), who was born at Salford town at 10th of May 1918, in Lancashire. "˜Norm' died in 2000, as far as known; thus 56 years after his "˜scary fall from the dark sky' over the Dorkwerd crash site, over the German occupied area of the Netherlands, and without a parachute !! (lucky for him, he fell into water then). Source Willem de Jong, Menaam village, Friesland / Netherlands
