'Soldier of Orange' Dutch War Hero Dies

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The Dutch World War II resistance hero, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema - better known as the "Soldier of Orange" - died this week at his home in Hawaii, his family said in a death notice published in a Dutch newspaper. He was 90.

Roelfzema was a student at the University of Leiden when the Nazis occupied the Netherlands, and he later went underground and fled to England, where he carried out numerous missions in the service of the Dutch royal house in exile.

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'Soldier of Orange' Dutch War Hero Dies

The notice in De Telegraaf, the nation's largest daily, did not specify the cause of death, but said Roelfzema ...

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