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Robert Joseph Peter "Moon" Collingwood (31 May 1917 - 1975) was a South African Captain in the South African Air Force during World War II. Moon" Collingwood was born in 1917 in South Africa and performed his studies at St Aidan College Grahamstwon in the Cape province. After completing his training on its commitment in the SAAF, he was assigned to Squadron 5 / SAAF in August 1941 but does not participate in combat with that unit which is then stationed in South Africa. In September 1941 he was transferred to Squadron 1 / SAAF in the Western Desert where he won his first success. In September 1942 he returned to South Africa and serves with the Squadron 10 / SAAF. It was in December 1942 that the announcement of the award of the DFC seems. In August 1943, he returned to the fight and joined the 322 Wing of the RAF and is affected to Squadron 152. In October, he became head of Airfield Squadron 81 and moved towards Burma where the Squadron was sent next month. Manage to shoot down a Japanese aircraft and 1944 and will become one of the few South African drivers to win victories against the Germans and the Japanese. At the end of the war, he returned to Egypt where he finds the Squadron 1 / SAAF getting ready then to join with the entire Asian Wing 7 / SAAF but the end of the war interrupted the transfer. He left the SAAF after war and was killed in a car accident in 1975.

Awards

 * Distinguished Flying Cross on 4 December 1942