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The rest of Europe, doesn't remember nor care from my observations in Hungary.
Poland is different. The problem with Hungary is that they never PUNISHED their communist masters..ever..they just faded into the shadows and they got money from the KGB and other commie organizations. Funds in the billions..with one report stating trillions was looted from the treasuries. Dutch and Belgium. They are different......and grateful but still some don't know what is what. It is just the older folks...the young ones I have met are...... 
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Our airforce (Royal Netherlands Airforce) also performs a flybly at the Margraten Cemetary every year. This year (and that was last sunday) F-16's from the Leeuwarden Airbase flew in a 'missing-man'-formation over the cemetary. From 2012: Four USAF F-15's and four RNLAF F-16's over Margraten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWJKdCLfDyc I live an area that where there was a lot of action in WW2. In the North are Nijmegen, Arnhem and Grave. In the West is now airbase Volkel, in WW2 it was a German base, heavily bombed by the Allies. In the East there is the river Maas and the German Reichswald and in the South is Overloon. |
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From the American cemetary in Margraten this past weekend.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/tv/nieuws/binnenland/24078448/__Memorial_Day_in_Margraten__.html |
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The French around Normandy are the same way. The cemeteries are meticulously maintained ad the people are very pro-American. The rest of France, not so much. But those folks remember.
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The Dutch remember the Hongerwinter. Basically, it was probably the first humanitarian airlift in history, and they remember the British, Canadians and Americans that flew those missions and kept the Dutch from starving. Quoted:
The Dutch remember the Hongerwinter. Basically, it was probably the first humanitarian airlift in history, and they remember the British, Canadians and Americans that flew those missions and kept the Dutch from starving. Screechjet, thanks for that info! I knew in general that the Low Countries had suffered from hunger but wasn't aware of any of the specifics. The famine was alleviated by the liberation of the area by the Allies in May 1945. Prior to that, bread baked from flour shipped in from Sweden, and the airlift of food by the Royal Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, and the U.S. Army Air Force – under an agreement with the Germans that if the Germans did not shoot at the mercy flights, the Allies would not bomb the German positions – helped to mitigate the famine. This was Operations Manna and Chowhound. Operation Faust also trucked in food to the area. Hongerwinter |