1/Lt. Gus D. Leslie


(F. Birtciel)

1/Lt. Gus D. Leslie

343rd FS - July 1944 - 05 November 1944 (Prisoner of War)

Assigned Aircraft

P-51D CY-A 44-13363 "Bama Blitz" (N. Howland)

Mission History

Not Known

Mission List

Not Known

Air Scores 0.5-0-1
Ground Scores 1-0
Score Detail

05 September 1944  Ju-52 destroyed (ground) Stuttgart/Echterdingen
10 September 1944 
(.5)Hs-126 destroyed (air) Schwabmunchen
02 November 1944  Me-109 damaged (air) Naumberg

Notes Entered service from Anniston, Alabama.
Hit by flak in the engine of his P-51.
MACR No. 10441
Room mate of Lt. Eliades in Stalag Luft 1.
Ground crew - T/Sgt. Walter J. Sabol, Sgt. Hagen and Cpl. G. J. Goff
Memories  
Additional Photograph (L-R) T/Sgt. Sabol, Sgt. Hagen, Lt. Leslie and Cpl. Goff
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