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Memorial Spitfire Pilot

(Netherlands, the - North Holland - Abbekerk)

At the cemetery behind Dorpsstraat 48 at Abbekerk is a memorial for a crashed Spitfire pilot:
"Sgt. Jozef Pretkowski
PAF/RAF-P704 629
Born 15-9-1915
Crashed with Spitfire 12-4-1945

He gave his life for our freedom"

The small text plate gives the follwing additionalinformation:
"The mortal remains of this airman have been transferred to the Polish cemetery of honour at Breda in 1962"

Source

• Text: Arjan Vrieze
• Photos: Arjan Vrieze