Kenneth Leigh Updated: 24 NOV 2021
Airman: e777858.htm Surname: Leigh Init: K Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 207
P_link: p480.htm Plane: LAN NG143 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The Kattegat
Crash_d: d161044 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Pilot Officer Kenneth Leigh, 23 år, var søn af John E. og Sarah Jane
Leigh, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Den 15. oktober 1944 styrtede
LAN NG143 i Kattegat omkring
her. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
Seks fly fra 10 BS minerede i farvandet mellem
Frederikshavn og Læsø (omkring
her), og under tilbageflyvningen så piloten på Halifax MZ410 et fly, der
blev skudt Flyet lettede fra Spilsby kl. 18.39, og man havde ikke siden hørt fra flyets telegrafist. Alle syv besætningsmedlemmer, fire englændere og tre canadiere, forsvandt i Kattegat. Efter krigen har svømmedykkere fundet adskillige vragrester på denne position." (FT 91-8-43)
Pilot Officer Kenneth Leigh, 23,
was the son of John E. and Sarah Jane Leigh, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
On 15 October 1944
LAN NG143 crashed into the Kattegat about
here. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review
writes: 6 planes from 10 BS laid mines in the waters between Frederikshavn and Læsø (about here) and on the return flight the pilot of Halifax MZ410 saw a plane being shot down by a German night fighter. The plane crashed, burning, into the sea at the above mentioned position. It can only be Lancaster NG 143 from 207 BS.
The plane took off from Spilsby at 18.39 hours,
and since then nothing was heard from the wireless operator. All 7 crew
members, 4 Englishmen and 3 Canadians, disappeared in the Kattegat. Scuba
divers have found several pieces of wreckage at this position after
the war." (FT 91-8-43) |