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P/O James Robert Lee
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 57 OTU
from:Texas, USA
P/O J.R. Lee's Spitfire R6686 from 57 OTU was in a collision on 8th April 1942 when 15 OTU Wellington L7818 took off from Harwell for cross country exercise. Both aircraft crashed a few hundred yards apart in the valley of the Broadwater stream near Cold Ashton 9 miles ESE of Bristol. All on board the Wellington were killed, as was P/O Lee and are buried in various cemeteries in the UK.