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Pieter Johannes Hoets (April 24, 1921 – August 28, 2014) was a Dutch Engelandvaarder, an active Dutch resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in WW-II.




World War II


After a failed attempt to sail to England on June 19, 1940, he eventually left the country from Delfzijl on October 13, 1944. In Stockholm he signed up as a volunteer and was assigned to the Dutch Intelligence in Stockholm to interrogate new arrivals.
After he arrived in England, he served in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army.




Post-war


After the war he immigrated to the US, where he studied US law at Yale University, joined The Coca-Cola Company where he became Chief Counsel for Coca Cola Europe, and later joined New York-based Reid & Priest, a law firm with 160 attorneys founded in 1935 with an office in Washington, D.C.. Hoets authored five historic books, including De Yale Connection. De jacht op de Marcos-miljarden en het Zwitsers bankgeheim ("The Yale Connection. Hunting the Marcos billions and Swiss banking secrecy.")




Death


Hoets died on August 28, 2014, in Stamford, Connecticut, the United States.




Military and Knight's Orders


Cross of Merit (Netherlands)
Oorlogsherinneringskruis with four stars (War Memorial Cross)
Verzetsherdenkingskruis (Resistance Memorial Cross)
Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau




See also


List of Engelandvaarders




Bibliography


Vrijgevaren! Met voorwoord van Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema (1976), ISBN 9061001412
Englandspiel ontmaskerd. Schijnstoot op Nederland en België 1942–1944 (1990), ISBN 9061003458
Spookspoor naar Moskou (1996), ISBN 9024271452
De Yale Connection. De jacht op de Marcos-miljarden en het Zwitsers bankgeheim. Met medewerking van Alexander Münninghoff (2000), ISBN 902611480X
Buitengaats! Met een Engelandvaarder de wereld in (2006), ISBN 905911163X




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