Service Details
Name:
BLATT
Given Name:
PIETER ANDRIES
Initials:
P A
Service No:
581173V
Rank:
Lieutenant
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Regiment:
South African Air Force
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Unit:
34 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
1945-04-04
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Age:
23
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, Liberator B.VI KK302, 8 crew (1 RAF), after returning from a bombing raid on the Brescia marshalling yards in Northern Italy, Liberator collided with an RAF Wellington bomber KL355 from 70 Sqdn while circling Celone airfield to land
Additional
Information:
Son of Pieter Andries and Davina Jacoba Susanna Blatt, of Malmesbury, Cape Province, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
Italy
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Cemetery:
BARI WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
XIII. B. 3.

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