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Search for Manchester relatives of airman accidentally shot down 80 years ago - as village prepares tribute

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Eighty years since his tragic death at the young age of only 29 the relatives of an airman killed when his plane was shot down in the Second World War are being urgently searched for in the Manchester areas of Withington and Chorlton.

Flight Sergeant Michael Vincent Browne was killed in 1941 when his plane, containing seven crew members, was tragically shot down near their village by one of our own night-fighters in a case of mis-identification.

The Parish Council of a village in Northamptonshire are searching for the relatives of the family who were last known living in the Withington and Chorlton areas of Manchester and the Parish Council.

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