After WW2, Hugo Wilmar worked for the Dutch Navy brigade stationed in the United States. Later, in November 1945 he embarked for East Java where he recorded combat of the Dutch Marines and Indonesians. There, his combat photographic skills recorded frontline action which made front page of Life Magazine. In later years, Hugo Wilmar became a wildlife photographer and filmmaker for Walt Disney, now known as Disney. During one of his journeys through South America, he died tragically in a fatal train accident near the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu. On a mountainside near Disney Studios in California you can find a memorial of the adventurous photographer: A commemorative stone with striking text “Down in flight like a wild bird” Hugo Wilmar was only 34 years old.