Looking for Leon Goetz Bio Data

[Peter Cornwell]

14 May 1940: GC II/10 Bloch 152 (66). Belly-landed following combat with Bf110s of I. and II./ZG26 over Dinant 7.30 p.m. S/Lt L. Goetz believed unhurt. Aircraft damage state not recorded.

17 May 1940: GC II/10 Bloch 152 (193). Landed at Plessis-Belleville aileron damaged in combat with Bf110s between Saint-Quentin and Chauny 12.00 p.m. Possibly that attacked by Oberlt Borchers of 4./ZG76. S/Lt. L. Goetz unhurt. Aircraft damaged but repairable.

17 May 1940: 3./ZG1 Messerschmitt Bf110C. Shot down by S/Lt Goetz of GC II/10 and crashed at Wavrechain-sous-Faulx, south-east of Douai, 11.30 a.m. Lt H. Schwabedissen and Obergefr W. Chranowski both killed. Aircraft a write-off.

13 Jue 1940: GC II/10 Bloch 152 (690). Shot down by flak near Aigle during reconnaissance sortie p.m. S/Lt L. Goetz unhurt. Aircraft a write-off.

Source: The Battle of France Then & Now (2007)

[gilles collaveri]

Thanks a lot,

fascinating to see that a French man asking a question about a French pilot gets an answer from a British citizen: It is a small world !

Best regards

GC