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In Memory of Pilot Officer Victor Lowson

11th November 2023 Going Postal 20th Century, History, WW II 0
Victor Lowson, born 22nd January 1920, killed in Action 22nd July 1942 aged 22

This was my uncle who was shot down in his Spitfire off the coast of Zeebrugge. Having been hit by flak his plane inverted into the sea. His body was never recovered.


 

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