FR EE! News from the communities of the Doon Valley Issue 36 March/April 2024 Loch Doon Spitfire Memorial Planned At the end of January Working alongside Forestry & Land Scotland, Drax and East Ayrshire Councillor Drew Filson Council, Patna sculptor Kevin...
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FR EE! News from the communities of the Doon Valley Issue 36 March/April 2024 Loch Doon Spitfire Memorial Planned At the end of January Working alongside Forestry & Land Scotland, Drax and East Ayrshire Councillor Drew Filson Council, Patna sculptor Kevin Roberts has been commissioned by the Czech and Loch Doon Ranger Ministry of Defence to make the Alan McDowall met monument which has been designed by Pavel Holy from the Czech Military with a delegation from History Institute and illustrates the Spitfire wing tip that struck the water the Czech Ministry of as the plane banked away after flying Design of the proposed memorial Defence to discuss the low over the loch, causing the crash. Drew said: "The Spitfire was recovered erection of a memorial and floated to the surface in 1982, but a special bottle of whisky Heffron which depicts one of their ace pilots, Alois in memory of the Czech Frantisek's body was never found. It Vasatko. This will be kept in our new has taken 35 years, but t
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