Dutch Fokker ( with Dutch crew ) landing on a lake - 1940

[Dennis Peschier]

Hello Adriano,
The information comes from “Englandspiel” by Jelte Rep, ISBN 90 26945612, 1977.
The Englandspiel, or unternehmen Nordpol are the names of a cruel counter intelligence game the Germans played with the Dutch and British services services. 59 Dutch agent were captured by the Germans, only five survived. Hundreds of resistance workers were captured, few returned.
Although the Tjeukermeer pickup was not a part of the Englandspiel, it is described in detail in this book because it was the start of the intelligence game in occupied Holland.

I do not know about any other instances were agent were picked up by plane in Holland. The big problem for the SOE was that Holland had, and has, no real remote area’s.
Hans Herst had been a part of the British Cumberlidge intelligence group. During that time he supposedly witnessed three successful pickups by British seaplanes on the Hollands diep, a wide body of water between Rotterdam and Breda. I have no further information about aircraft involved in these pickups

Dennis