Dutch fighter pilot, Major Jan Linzel fought against the Luftwaffe
on Sunday at the age of 103 and will be buried locally in Glengarriff following a funeral s service on Thursday.
“I saw the silhouette of an aircraft that I had never seen before... I then saw the German markings and gave a short burst - a very bright violent flame came out of its right engine and then black smoke - it went down straight away,” he recalled. “When I pulled away, a bullet came through the floor and exploded in my thigh - there was a lot of blood and I started to feel faint. I threw off the hood and bailed out - you have no idea how quiet it is when you are hanging in the air.”
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