Service Details
Name:
 KRYNAUW
Given Name:
 DANIEL
Initials:
 D
Service No:
 328380V
Trade:
 Obs.
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 60 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-26
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Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Mosquito PR.XVI NS521, Airborne 08:00 on 26 Aug 1944 from San Severo on a photo reconnaissance (PR) mission to several Messerschmitt aircraft factories and airfields at Regensburg. The aircraft was intercepted by a Me 262 (Ofw. Helmut Recker of Erprobungskommando 262) and crashed 10:19Z 3 km S of Breitenhill, 22 km N of Ingolstadt
Additional
Information:
Son of Barend L. Krynauw and Maria E. Krynauw, of Cape Town, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Germany
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Locality:
 Bad Tolz, Bayern
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Cemetery:
 DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 2. A. 21.

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