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Dutchman receives compensation for Nagasaki bombing
Dick Büchel, a 95-year-old man from Waalre, Noord-Brabant has received the equivalent of 8800 euro in damages from the Japanese government for surviving the atom bomb that hit Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. He served in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army on the island of Java where was taken prisoner by the Japanese, and [...]