Dear All

My name is René Bosma en I live in the little Dutch town of Oosterwolde. Since 4 years I have been investigating the Air war over the Northern part of the Netherlands. It is my main objective to gather as much information as possible about the aircraft and the airmen which came down over the province of Friesland during the Second World War. We consider it very important to keep the memory of the Air war alive, especially the many flyers paid with their lives for our Freedom.

One of the aircraft I research is a English Halifax 4 engine bomber of the Royal Air Force 76 squadron. On his way back from Bremen (4th of June 1942) the heavy bomber were attack by a German night fighter. Short after that the Halifax crashed into the Waddensea in the Northern part of The Netherlands. Sadly all the 6 crewmembers lost dear lives.

One of the crewmembers was a Americans. He was the wireless operator en air gunner on this plain. His name was Robert Samuel Mulhauser he was a Pilot Officer. Robert was in service with the Royal Canadian Air Force en stationed in England. He was born on the 1st of October 1919. I only knows the name of his mothers: Helen Baerd Mulhauser. In 1940 Robert lives with his mother on Highland Avenue 205, Highland Park, Wayne, Michigan. Robert has a younger brother Frederick. His father Samuel Alfred Mulhauser passed away in 1934. Father was born in Germany.

After the crash Robert his body washed ashore on the German Island of Borkum. His body first buried here but short after the war his remains where reburied at the Sage War Cemetery at Oldenburg, Germany.

At the moment I research this crash en hope to found some ancestors/relatives or someone who could tell me more about Robert his family, his live before he get in service en his service life.
My goal with the information I put together is to make a as precise as possible reconstruction about the crew en their mission on that day. So the story of the brave man who gave their live for our freedom never will be forgotten.

Thank you in advance en hope someone could en will help me.

Kind regards

René Bosma, Oosterwolde, The Netherlands
my email: rene_bosma21@hotmail.com