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Brown, Clifford Althea

Date of birth:
(England)
Date of death:
February 15th, 1944 (Andijk/Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
Buried on:
Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: XII. Row: A. Grave: 2.
Service number:
1620541
Nationality:
British

Biography

Sergeant
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
622 Sqdn.

In the night of February 15-16, 1944 Lancaster W4272 took off at 5.40 pm from Mildenhall airfield in County Suffolk in England. On its way back from Berlin at 11.33 pm, the plane was shot out of the air by a German Messerschmitt Bf 110 night fighter from Leeuwarden airport and crashed into the IJsselmeer, approximately 1 kilometer off the coast near the marina in Andijk.

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