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Wijnand Langeraar
B:1915Haarlem D: 2002 Biblio: Rear Admiral, Royal Netherlands Navy (ret.) (1986). - 2 November 1915 - 16 February 2002. A Naval Officer and World War II On 02 November 1915 ... , Wijnand Langeraar was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands. He began his career as a Royal Dutch Naval officer at the age of 18. In 1940, during World War II, when the Netherlands was overrun by bordering Germany, my father was taken prisoner while attempting to escape to England in a stolen Nazi Schnellboot. Being a prisoner of war and Jewish, he endured four and a half years of Nazi camps, from late 1940 until the Allied Forces liberation in May 1945 ... After the War, he returned to active duty, acquired Ph.D.’s in Mathematics and Geodesy, and had a brilliant career, ultimately retiring as Rear-Admiral. A career highlighted by his invention of a Long-Range Navigation system, Patent #2,980,907 (first filed February 1954 and awarded April 1961), the precursor and principal patent for today’s GPS systems found in every car, cellphone, airplane, vessel, etc.
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