F/O Samuel Angelini

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Bob Lawrence scored two more victories on New Year's day 1945 when the Luftwaffe made its last major fighter attack of the war. With three companions Lawrence was returning from a weather recce over the American battlefront when the four Typhoons intercepted a large formation of German fighters returning from a strafe on Eindhoven. Laurence brought down two FS-190s, one of which was flown by the leader of the enemy formation, and F/O A.H. Fraser destroyed two more Focke-Wulfs. In the action F/O Samuel Angelini was shot down and killed.