Spitfire BS107 Mk IX - Sweep Dieppe France - 1942-08-19 to 1942-08-19
Squadron: 401 (F) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1942-08-19
Completion Date: 1942-08-19
Mission: Sweep
Operation: Operation Jubilee
Target City: Dieppe France
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Lympne
Take Off Time:
Squadron Code: YO-C
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: France
Crash Specifics: near Dieppe
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: unspecified
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401 City of Westmount Squadron RCAF (Mors cellerima hostibus) RAF Lympne. Warrant Officer 1st Class Leo Joseph Armstrong,(RCAF)(USA), flying Spitfire IX aircraft BS 107 YO-C on a fighter sweep over Dieppe, France as part of Operation Jubilee was shot down by a German Focke-Wulf 190. Warrant Officer Armstrong baled from his stricken aircraft and landed in the English Channel. Unfortunately, he was captured to become a Prisoner of War. Sent to Stalag 344, Armstrong was liberated and returned safely to the UK 1945-05-10

The Greatest Air Battle, Dieppe, 19th August 1942 by Norman Franks, pages 140,235

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