Bram Van Der Stok - After The War

After The War

He was awarded the Order of Orange Nassau from the Netherlands and two years after the war he was inducted as a Member of the Order of the British Empire. He was offered the command of the new Dutch air force, but declined and instead finished his medicine studies.

He later moved to the U.S. with his wife Petie and their three children. There he worked as an OB-GYN in Syracuse, New York and as a GP in Ruidoso, New Mexico, though he later joined NASA's space lab research team in Huntsville, Alabama. In 1970 Van der Stok moved to Honolulu, where he practiced medicine, and in 1980 published Oorlogsvlieger van Oranje, later translated into English as War Pilot of Orange. He later joined the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and took part in 162 rescues before his death in 1993.

In the 1963 film The Great Escape, he was composited into the character of Sedgwick, played by James Coburn.