Lewis Blake Leedy Jr
Military ROLL OF HONOURNewspaper clipping
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
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- 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
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Brittany Cemetary
- 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. |
Revisions
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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
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5482