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From Long Branch, Ontario. Killed in Action JuI.3/44 age 24. #417 City of Windsor Squadron (Supporting Liberty And Justice). F/O McLaren was flying Spitfire aircraft #JG 272 at 8,000 feet in the Arezzoqitau area of Italy and was looking for a target to bomb when the port wing was hit by flak and half the wing was blown away. The aircraft went into a spin, did not recover and exploded and burst into flames on impact. Flying Officer Pilot McLaren was buried one mile west of Chiusi Deil Verna, Italy, exhumed, and reinterred in the Arezzo War Cemetery, Arezzo, Italy.
