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Article: Wayward watch
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- Evanston Review (IL)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2003
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A watch that an Evanston resident lost on a failed bombing mission in World War II is causing reverberations nearly 60 years after the incident.
Jim Hoel, now 82, a resident on the 2700 block of Princeton Avenue for 27 years, became the focus of a mini-media storm recently after news broke that a watch he thought lost in the deeps of an ocean-going canal in German-occupied Holland in 1943 had been miraculously returned to him.
Hoel, then 22, was one of 60 men on 10 planes sent on an experimental mission ("only we weren't told it was experimental," he said) on May 17, 1943, to bomb a power plant in Holland. All 10 planes were downed by German fire, killing 40 of the men.
Hoel and the six-man ...
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