Niels Buchwald Photos and information from Jan Bakker 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 Niels Juul Rysensteen Buchwald Bislev 27 DEC 2016
 

Den 1. maj 2013 sendte Jan Bakker en email fra Holland: "Jeg er meget interesseret i alle oplysninger om Niels Buchwald, den danske Spitfire pilot, der tragisk nok døde den 13. oktober 1944, siden det skete på mine bedsteforældres gård i Schoondijke."  I næste email skrev han: "Historien kender jeg mest fra hvad jeg har hørt fra en af mine tanter, da de fleste ældre slægtninge er gået bort. Fra hvad jeg har fundet på internettet blev han sandsynligvis skudt ned af antiluftskyts, mens han angreb landsbyen Schoondijke. På det tidspunkt var Slaget om Scheldt netop begyndt. Det antages også at Niels kunne have dykket med sit fly og ikke kunne trække det op i tide, men det er naturligvis et gæt. Flyet ramte et hjørne af laden på mine bedsteforældres gård lige uden for landsbyen. (Jeg har prøvet at angive på  Google Earth, hvor gården og laden lå i 1944, men der er naturligvis sket ændringer i mellemtiden.) Efter styrtet prøvede tyske soldater at tage liget af Niels Buchwald med sig, men min bedstefar og en onkel overbeviste dem om, at ham kunne de nok tage sig af. Fra hvad jeg har hørt, var min bedstefar en meget overbevisende mand, ikke bare af skikkelse, men også ud fra hvad han gjorde. (Selv om min familie ikke direkte var med i modstandsbevægelsen havde de dog en kort tid en radiosender gemt i huset, samtidig med at ca.100 tyske soldater var på gården.)" Her s.9! og her? Foto 2 her? Han forlod først Danmark i august 1942, så det kan ikke være ham. (Danish WW2 Pilots) On 1 May 2013 Jan Bakker wrote an email from The Netherlands: "I am very interested in any information about Niels Buchwald, the Danish Spitfire Pilot, who tragicly died on 13 October 1944 as this has taken place on my grandparents' farm in Schoondijke." In his next email he mentioned a page of the Dutch website Wings to Victory and wrote: "The story is mostly what I have heard from an aunt of mine as most of the older relatives have passed away. From what I have found on the internet he was probably shot down by anti-aircraft guns while he was on a raid on the village of Schoondijke. At that time ‘the Battle of the Scheldt’ had just begun as well.  It is also suggested that Niels might have been in a dive with his plane and couldn’t pull up in time, but that of course is a guess. The plane hit a corner of the barn on my grandparents farm just outside the village (I have tried to indicate where the farm and the barn were situated in 1944 on Google Earth, some things have changed in the meantime). After the crash German soldiers tried to take the body of Niels Buchwald with them, but my grandfather and an uncle convinced them to leave him under their care. From what I have heard my grandfather was a very convincing man, not only from his figure but also in the way he handled things. (Although my family wasn’t directly involved in the resistance movement, for a short while they even had a transmitter radio hidden in the house while in the meantime some 100 German soldiers were stationed in the farmyard.)"