AFTER MISSION REPORT.
Training Name: SJOERDSMA
Field Name: 1st Operation: CHRITIAAN or SQUEAK I.
2nd Operation: GUNDER or SQUEAK II
Interrogated by: Captain WHITTAKER on 31 May 1945
1st OPERATION.
MISSION.
WT operator to EVERT, RVV and organiser in OVERIJSSEL. Sent to replace WT MAURITS (Jaap Beekman) who was to return to U.K. but who was unable to do so, not having been treined for Lysander operation. Informant was thus redundant and was attached to HQ Zone-2, which included N.E.POLDER, OVERIJSSEL and ACHTERHOEK, was WT operator to EDUARD (Hotz), Zone Commander.
He left the U.K. on 5 January 1945 and was overrun by Allied forces on 2 April 1945, returning to U.K. through S.F. (Special Forces) channels on 6 April 1945.
1. ARRIVAL.
Together with 15 containers and six special packages was parachuted to STEGERVELD, North East of Ommen, on the night of the 5 January 1945, this being the second attempt - his first attempt failed to locate the pin-point. He had not been given a pass-word but recognised MAURITS from a photograph he had been shown in London. Reception drill was orthodox; he was taken by MAURITS to a hole in the ground, which was inhabited by 6 or 7 of the reception committee - which numbered about 20 all told. He stayed there until early morning, by which time all the equipment had been collected safely. At daylight, he was taken to a safehouse belonging to a schoolmaster (Wensink) escorted by MAURITS and several other members of the reception committee. They travelled by bicycle; no patrols were encountered. They carried arms and intended to fight if challenged, as they carried much compromising material. He stayed all day in this safehouse and at night was taken to EVERT (Lancker) who, after consultation with his staff, decided to send informant with Major HENK (Brinkgreve), a Dutch Paratroop Officer, to EDUARD's HQ Zone-2. (Zie netwerk Beekman).
2. COVER.
A Mate in the Dutch Merchant Navy. He had been working in the HAMBURG Ship Yards of BLOHM & VOSS but, on account of a duodenal ulcer had been given a medical certificate by a Hamburg doctor. This cover was never changed and gave no difficulty. LONDON papers were supplemented with others, supplied by the organisation and only once in three months were they inspected.
3. SITUATION IN THE AREA.
A large proportion of the population was unwilling to assist, being very afraid of reprisals, but many were sympathic. Collaborator Dutchmen of the NSB were known to be in the area.
4. ORGANISATION.