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RAF aircraft's crash sites out of borders:
Roermond (NL)

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the Heroes of Silence

* To the 416 Squadron *
* To the crew of MJ387 *
* To the monument erected in remembrance *
* Cemetery where rest the crew *

Crash site of Spitfire MJ387
21/11/1944

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cest raf squadron
Unit: 416 Squadron
Aircraft: Spitfire
Code: MJ387
Base:
Mission: Patrol
Crew officer: F/O COLLINS, ALLAN WADDINGHAM
Incident: Collided

Location: (Prov. Limburg)

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Facts

Two Spitfire aircraft were flying in cloud whilst engaged in a patrol over Roermond, Holland when they collided. F/O. Collins was the pilot of aircraft # MK 837 and was killed when it crashed fifteen miles west of Roermond. Flying Officer Pilot Collins is buried in the Brussels Town Cemetery, Evere, Bruxelles, Belgium."

Sources:
RAF-Command-forum

The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
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