2nd Lt. Samuel G. Leftenant, a Tuskegee Airman, was killed after colliding with another plane over Austria.
Of Amityville, N.Y., he graduated from flight training on Sept. 8, 1944, at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama and soon deployed to Italy with the 99th Fighter Squadron 332nd Fighter group.
While escorting bombers to Sankt Veit, Austria, on April 12, 1945, 2nd Lt. James L. Hall Jr., and 2nd Lt. Leftenant collided. Hall bailed from his damaged P-51 Mustang before it crashed; he became a prisoner of war. Leftenant was not seen again.
Leftenant transmitted that he could not keep his plane up very much longer, and asked for instructions, 1st Lt. Wendell M. Lucas wrote in a military report. Maj. William Campbell instructed him to fly as far east as possible. ... Plane seemed to be under control.
Leftenant's name is included on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery and Memorial in Italy. He also has a headstone back home in Amityville, NY.
He was awarded an Air Medal and a Purple Heart for his military service.
In the MEMORIAL book MISSING IN ACTION FAILED TO RETURN
NICOLE-MELANIE GOLL AND GEORG HOFFMAN
WWW.BUNDESHEER.AT
ISBN : 978-3-9504258-0-2
p.128
Crash place klagenfurt Kärnten Austria
Death Place klagenfurt.
12.4.1945
Of Amityville, N.Y., he graduated from flight training on Sept. 8, 1944, at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama and soon deployed to Italy with the 99th Fighter Squadron 332nd Fighter group.
While escorting bombers to Sankt Veit, Austria, on April 12, 1945, 2nd Lt. James L. Hall Jr., and 2nd Lt. Leftenant collided. Hall bailed from his damaged P-51 Mustang before it crashed; he became a prisoner of war. Leftenant was not seen again.
Leftenant transmitted that he could not keep his plane up very much longer, and asked for instructions, 1st Lt. Wendell M. Lucas wrote in a military report. Maj. William Campbell instructed him to fly as far east as possible. ... Plane seemed to be under control.
Leftenant's name is included on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery and Memorial in Italy. He also has a headstone back home in Amityville, NY.
He was awarded an Air Medal and a Purple Heart for his military service.
In the MEMORIAL book MISSING IN ACTION FAILED TO RETURN
NICOLE-MELANIE GOLL AND GEORG HOFFMAN
WWW.BUNDESHEER.AT
ISBN : 978-3-9504258-0-2
p.128
Crash place klagenfurt Kärnten Austria
Death Place klagenfurt.
12.4.1945
2nd Lt. Samuel G. Leftenant, a Tuskegee Airman, was killed after colliding with another plane over Austria.
Of Amityville, N.Y., he graduated from flight training on Sept. 8, 1944, at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama and soon deployed to Italy with the 99th Fighter Squadron 332nd Fighter group.
While escorting bombers to Sankt Veit, Austria, on April 12, 1945, 2nd Lt. James L. Hall Jr., and 2nd Lt. Leftenant collided. Hall bailed from his damaged P-51 Mustang before it crashed; he became a prisoner of war. Leftenant was not seen again.
Leftenant transmitted that he could not keep his plane up very much longer, and asked for instructions, 1st Lt. Wendell M. Lucas wrote in a military report. Maj. William Campbell instructed him to fly as far east as possible. ... Plane seemed to be under control.
Leftenant's name is included on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery and Memorial in Italy. He also has a headstone back home in Amityville, NY.
He was awarded an Air Medal and a Purple Heart for his military service.
In the MEMORIAL book MISSING IN ACTION FAILED TO RETURN
NICOLE-MELANIE GOLL AND GEORG HOFFMAN
WWW.BUNDESHEER.AT
ISBN : 978-3-9504258-0-2
p.128
Crash place klagenfurt Kärnten Austria
Death Place klagenfurt.
12.4.1945
Of Amityville, N.Y., he graduated from flight training on Sept. 8, 1944, at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama and soon deployed to Italy with the 99th Fighter Squadron 332nd Fighter group.
While escorting bombers to Sankt Veit, Austria, on April 12, 1945, 2nd Lt. James L. Hall Jr., and 2nd Lt. Leftenant collided. Hall bailed from his damaged P-51 Mustang before it crashed; he became a prisoner of war. Leftenant was not seen again.
Leftenant transmitted that he could not keep his plane up very much longer, and asked for instructions, 1st Lt. Wendell M. Lucas wrote in a military report. Maj. William Campbell instructed him to fly as far east as possible. ... Plane seemed to be under control.
Leftenant's name is included on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery and Memorial in Italy. He also has a headstone back home in Amityville, NY.
He was awarded an Air Medal and a Purple Heart for his military service.
In the MEMORIAL book MISSING IN ACTION FAILED TO RETURN
NICOLE-MELANIE GOLL AND GEORG HOFFMAN
WWW.BUNDESHEER.AT
ISBN : 978-3-9504258-0-2
p.128
Crash place klagenfurt Kärnten Austria
Death Place klagenfurt.
12.4.1945
Inscription
In memory of SAMUEL GORDON LEFTENANT
2LT US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
MAR 16 1924
APR 12 1945
PURPLE HEART
AIR MEDAL
TUSKEGEE AIRMAN
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
