Lewis Blake Leedy Jr

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-54762.jpeg UPL 54762 Lewis B Leedy Jr

Newspaper clipping

Object Number - UPL 54762 - Lewis B Leedy Jr

Assigned to 704BS, 446BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Granville France in B-24 42-109830 'Daisy Mae Skraggs' 8-Jun-44; fatally wounded by 20mm cannon shell shortly after having successfully downed an attacking Me109. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 5482



Awards: AM (2OLC), PH.

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Units served with

A flight of B-24 Liberators of the 446th Bomb Group fly in formation above the clouds.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 704th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17032416 / O-685213
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Daisy Mae Skraggs
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 704th Bomb Squadron

Places

Aerial photograph of Bungay (Flixton) airfield, looking south, the technical site- with T2 hangar- and control tower are to the right, where the main airfield gate is also situated, 16 October 1945. Photograph taken by No. 541 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/930. English Heritage (RAF Photography).
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Flixton

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Highspire, PA 22 August 1918 Son of Lewis B Sr and Myrtle D [Kauffman] Leedy.

Enlisted

Harrisburg, PA 1 July 1940 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Died

Les Isles Chausey 8 June 1944 Killed in Action (KIA)

Buried

Les Isles Chausey 9 June 1944 Interred Les Isles Chausey

Buried

Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial Re-Interred Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial Plot D Row 2 Grave 10

Based

Bungay 8 June 1944 Assigned to 704BS, 446BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Sources

Information added from duplicate record. Sources for the record were: MACR 5482 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5482

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