Service Details
Name:
 SMIT
Given Name:
 PETER
Initials:
 P
Service No:
 207230V
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 1675 Heavy Conversion Unit
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Date of Death:
 1945-07-19
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Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Liberator B.VI EV817. Aircraft climbed to a height of 500 ft. immediately after taking off. It then began to lose height, before climbing again. What followed was the aircraft then made a steep diving turn to port, from which it crashed and then destroyed by fire. The cause of the erratic flying was not positively determined but may have been a faulty artificial horizon or simply poor instrument flying
Additional
Information:
Son of Izak Tobias Smit and Bermina Fredrika Smit, of Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 MOASCAR WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 2. E. 15.

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