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Old 27th May 2023, 00:31
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Re: First name needed for LAC Leale - 13 Squadron

Hi all,

Another name from 13 Squadron. This LAC served with the Squadron in France, 1940. LAC Leale and was a air gunner, flying in Lysanders.

Could anyone help with his first name please?

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Old 27th May 2023, 21:50
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Re: First name needed for LAC Leale - 13 Squadron

Danny,

I believe that surname should be Neale instead of Leale.

There are only eight names for Leale on the online (T.N.A.) AIR 78 enlisted personnel name cards. See AIR 78/95/4/page 193. Of these two appear to be 1918 vintage, while the other six have post 1940 service numbers.

In the 13 Squadron Appendices (AIR 27/183A, pages 19 & 22), also online free at the T.N.A. website, there is an air gunner listed as 550892 AC1 G.D. Neale.
He is George Dennis Ivor Neale from his AIR 78/117/1/108 name card.

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Re: First name needed for LAC Leale - 13 Squadron

Hello,

Later, 550892 F/Sgt George Dennis Ivor NEALE RAF, was a "Guinea Pig".

https://www.eastgrinsteadmuseum.org....nis-ivor-neale

Aircraft involved were:

Defiant II - AA581 - 96//TFU/515 - Hit by Defiant AA576 after landing at night, Tangmere, 15.1.43.

Defiant II - AA576 - 96/256/SDFlt/Northolt/515/Cv TT - To Admiralty 10.1.44.

See: RAF A/C AA100 to AZ999/Halley, J. J./A-B(Historians)/2000(2nd.ed.)/p.7.

and ...

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/1720

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/1717

See also:
The Defiant File.
Brew, Alec
Tunbridge Wells:Air-Britain(Historians),1996.
pp.44 & 108.

Col.

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