Bram Vanderstok, MBE, was born on October 13, 1915 in Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies. he was a world war II fighter pilot and still holds the record as the most decorated aviator in Dutch history. After the war he studied and practiced medicine as well as working with the U.S. Coast Guard auxiliary, participating in 162 rescues. He died in February 1993.
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On the night of March 24, 1944, Bram Vanderstok was number eighteen of seventy-six men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft III in Zagan, Poland. The 1963 film The Great Escape, was largely based on this autobiography but-with Vandersto... SEE MORE