ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 161141
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| Date: | Monday 4 December 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX |
| Owner/operator: | 43 (China-British) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | PT542 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Brisighella -
 Italy
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
On 16 November 1944, 43 Sqn RAF moved to Rimini and then started to train for dive-bombing attacks. The first dive-bombing sortie was flown on 21 November, but then bad weather prevented any successful operation that month.
On 4 December 1944, the weather was good and the squadron started dive-bombing operations from dawn. During one of these 21-year old Flt Sgt Geoffrey Robert Leigh flew through an intense and accurate curtain of Flak west of Faenza and was killed when his Spitfire IX PT542 was shot down and crashed at Brisighella.
Sources:
“Osprey Aviation Elite Units 9: No 43 ’Fighting Cocks’ Squadron”, by Andy Saunders, ISBN 1-84176-439-6
http://www.aereiperduti.net/anni/1944.php
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2207084/LEIGH,%20GEOFFREY%20ROBERT
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p092.html
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisighella
http://www.maplandia.com/italy/emilia-romagna/ravenna/brisighella/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Oct-2013 01:24 | JINX | Added |
| 27-Mar-2015 20:31 | Juan P.Paco | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 06-Jun-2015 15:50 | Angel dick one | Updated [Operator] |
| 05-Dec-2015 08:14 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Total fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
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