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Nimrod area will lead special service in memory of soldiers who died in Afghanistan

Elvington, UK - To take place at Yorkshire Air Museum

Next Sunday September 4 between 1:00pm and 2:45pm local time, a public memorial mass will be held at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington to honour 14 soldiers killed in Afghanistan on September 2, 2006 after a mid-air explosion during a reconnaissance flight aboard a Nimrod aircraft. The ceremony, lead by the archbishop of York, will finish with a flypast by a "Spitfire" from the Battle of Britain...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1133412
Rome, Italy, 09/02/2011 20:02
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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