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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2234

(x) South Africa
Later Crashes
1942 (19 Dec.) "Dan" Pienaar Lockheed Crash in Kenya
1942 (Nov.) Italian P.O.W. card from Private Watson to his mother in East London, recovered and forwarded with an explanatory leaflet. Very rare with only five items of mail reportedly known to exist. Nierinck 421219. Photo

Note: A Lockheed Lodester from Egypt to South Africa crashed in to Lake Victoria after taking off from Kisumu, Kenya. On board was Major-General "Dan" Pienaar who had led the 1st. S.A. Infantry Brigade to victories in the Italian Somaliland-Abyssinia campaigns and again in the North African campaigns. A court inquiry concluded that an electrical fault had prevented the pilot Capt. J.D. Mail from retracting the undercarriage by any other means than manually. Whilst attempting to do so the aircraft crashed. All twelve persons on board perished

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