Adriaan Botha (SAAF officer)
Adriaan Jacobus Botha | |
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Born | Senekal, Orange Free State | 25 June 1921
Died | 14 June 1941 | (aged 19)
Service/ | South African Air Force |
Rank | Lieutenant |
Adriaan Jacobus Botha was a South African flying ace of World War II, credited with 5 kills.[1]
He was shot down south of Bir Hacheim by a Bf -109 from I/JG27 on 14 June 1941.[2]
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- South African military personnel stubs
- South African World War II flying aces
- 1921 births
- 1941 deaths
- South African Air Force personnel of World War II
- South African military personnel killed in World War II
- Aviators killed by being shot down