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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
Address and contactinformation
- Address:
- Dorpsstraat 48
1657 AD Abbekerk - WWII grade:
- 100%
- Rating:
- 20%


