Leon Laverne Gray

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-15612.jpeg UPL 15612 A hand-lettered remembrance, inside the Parish Church of South Cove. It is incorrect, in that there are now only two crewmembers buried at Cambridge. The remainder have been repatriated.

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Photo taken 15 September 2012, Gary Atkins

Object Number - UPL 15612 - A hand-lettered remembrance, inside the Parish Church of South Cove. It is incorrect, in that there are now only two crewmembers buried at...

Killed when B24J 42-51241 was apparently caught in propwash, and was thrown over on its back on the way back from mission 920. The crew did not have time to escape the aircraft before it started to break up, and it crashed close to St Lawrence Church, with all crew lost.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 93rd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

4 May 1925

Died

South Cove, Beccles, Suffolk NR34, UK 31 March 1945

Born

Buried

Gettysburg, PA 17325, USA Gettysburg National Cemetery Gettysburg Adams County Pennsylvania, USA Plot: Section 2, Site #468

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http://www.usaafdata.com/
Find A Grave Memorial# 51682615
Ancestry.com
photos and description of the crash: http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/ukcr3.htm

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

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