Leonard T Ryerson
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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P/O Leonard T Ryerson 133 [Eagle] Sqn RAF later 2nd Lt 336th FS, 4th FG, 8AF USAAF.
Joined RAFVR, shipped overseas, assigned to 133 [Eagle] Sqn RAF, Transferred to 336FS 4FG 8AF USAAF.
Killed in Action (KIA) 26 September 1942. Crashed near Morlaix, France, out of fuel in Spitfire Mk IX BS275.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: Spitfire
- Unit: 4th Fighter Group 336th Fighter Squadron No 133 'Eagle' Squadron
Missions
- Date: 26 September 1942
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: "Duckpond"
- Site type: Memorial
Revisions
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Lee Cunningham 16-Nov-2014. KIA location event and burial info edit.
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Lee Cunningham 28-Oct-2014. Connection to mission within web-site data.
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Lee Cunningham 22-Oct-2014. American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
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ABMC, Losses of the 8th and 9th Air Forces by Bishop and Hey, p. 32 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list