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Identity
Person No.
32694
Service No.
71117204
Last Name
First Name
Otthart Paul Friedrich
Initials
O P F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
36
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,735
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in Aircraft Accident, at Windhoek, South West Africa, in Alouette III #23. Aircraft struck power lines 7Km north of Windhoek and caught alight. Crew and passengers were killed during the subsequent emergency landing
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,874
South African Defence Force
Notes

Husband of Mrs. I. Ritter, of Windhoek.

Research notes

Locality was wrongly set to "Gauteng" -- corrected 28 Aug 2026 as part of a broader systemic fix: a large batch of records (thousands, mostly DateChecked 2026-08-17 and a few other dates) were defaulted to Gauteng regardless of the person's actual origin. This record's own AddInfo places them outside South Africa entirely, so Locality is cleared rather than guessed at a specific province.
5 Sep 2026: Unit "112 Air Commando Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Air Force". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.

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