Kloezeman and Bill Knijff

Photo courtesy of Jack Bakker and the Dutch Commando Museum. Jack adds the following:
"On the left is Kloezeman and on the right is (Bill) Knijff. As many other No 2 Dutch Troopers did, he came from another country. In his case Canada. And he was not that fluent in Dutch. In fact there were some of them who didn’t speak Dutch at all!! But because of the fact that Holland was their home country after all, they joined up to kick the Germans out! As you can see Kloezeman is wearing an American type helmet. Because they were attached to US units, in their case the 82nd Airborne Division, they had to wear US equipment. They did but they kept their green berets and wore them in action."


Posted by Pete R.