Anders Straarup - 70 years on 25 February 2014    Photos       På dansk                Updated:  12 JUN 2018

This anniversary was mentioned in
Randers Amtsavis on 20 February 2014 - the text translated here.
Politiken on 25 February 2014 - very much like the text in Amtsavisen.
Jyllands-Posten on 25 February 2014 - about half of it like in Amtsavisen.

See Havndal Skole and Linksbuketten - A Bunch of Links.
Randerstæppet The Randers Tapestry.
AirmenDK www.airmen.dk. 463 planes and 3088 airmen are in the database!
 
Others about the quality and extent of AirmenDK:
In
2014 it was settled that after my death the National Museum of Denmark
will preserve www.airmen.dk and public access to the website. See more in
Niels-Birger Danielsen: The Occupation is the El Dorado of amateur historians, original pdf Jyllands-Posten 18 MAR 2016.
See also
Foreword by Chief of Air Staff of the Royal Danish Air Force, Major General Anders Rex received on 20 FEB 2018.
More about this lifelong project on About AirmenDK. See Foredrag lectures.

Birthdays 
Randers Amtsavis  Thursday 20 February 2014 page 15 (Only the top half of the text in Danish is shown here. The author is unknown to me. AS.)

70 years: Anders Straarup, Karetmagervej 25, Randers will reach seventy on 25 February.

Anders Straarup was born on a farm near Kolding. After his graduation as a teacher and his military service he was engaged at Havndal School where he was a
teacher and a guidance counsellor for nearly 40 years. He had a number of positions of trust. He quickly saw the opportunities of integrating the internet into education
and guidance counselling and for that purpose he made the website www.linksbuketten.dk.

After his retirement he started using his skills on the internet combined with his great historical knowledge and interest. In the first place he put the beautiful Randers Tapestry on the internet, so you may click on it and get a lot of information about the history of Randers and environs.

Having completed that he entered the big project of his life www.airmen.dk about Allied airmen who crashed in Denmark during World War II. Personal accounts,
photos, maps, descriptions of planes and references to other sources - an overwhelming material which has become known beyond this country and recognized for its
high professionalism. The work has led to many contacts domestic and abroad - and a number of lectures in Denmark, about the airmen and other historical subjects such as the Hvidsten Cell.

On the initiative of Anders Straarup a memorial stone at Grønhøj Kro was erected in May 2013 to a bomber crew that crashed there. At the unveiling ceremony there
were more than 250 attendants including a number of relatives from England and Scotland. They were moved and grateful to have a memorial to a family member and
to get to know what really happened.

Work continues on the Airmen-website, but Anders Straarup has energy for more and likes an active outdoor life, so he still participates in orienteering with his friends, officers of the reserve.