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Marcel said:
Jan Linzel passed away at an age of 103 at liberation day today.

He was one of the Dutch Heroes!

He was one of the D.XXI pilots during the 5 days war in May 1940, flying form Ypenburg, The Hague. After some resistance work, he escaped to the UK and flew Spitfires and Tempest fighters from there. After the war he was comander of the VlieHorst and as such was responsible for the training of countless NATO fighter pilots. He was one of our last airwarriors left. Rest in peace Jan :pilotsalute:




For the interested, I did a thread about him many years ago: The May fliers - Jan Linzel
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A great historian ....
John Lukacs, R.I.P.: The American Who Understood Europe :: Conrad Black
".. Roosevelt withdrew his ambassador from Berlin after the Kristallnacht outrages against German Jews in 1938, and Hitler responded in kind. But when Roosevelt did seek and win a third term, gave the British 50 destroyers, imposed peacetime conscription for the first time in American history, extended American territorial waters from three to 1,800 miles, ordered the U.S. Navy to attack any German ship on detection, and then passed the Lend-Lease Act offering the British and Canadians anything they wanted on relaxed repayment terms, Hitler had some reason to believe that he would soon be at war with America. In these circumstances, it made some sense for Hitler to imagine that if he was facing war in the west with Britain and America, Stalin might be induced to stab him in the back — but if he could flatten Russia first and then commit his entire strength to the defense of the German European fortress, the Anglo-Americans might have to acquiesce in German domination of most of Europe."
 
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