Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Sgt. John Donald Lenehan

Royal Canadian Air Force 55 Operational Training Unit

from:Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada

(d.5th Dec 1941)

John Leonean was born 3rd of July 1915 and served with 55 Operational Training Unit based at RAF Usworth in Sunderland in 1941. On the 5th Dec 1941 whilst flying over Pelton Co. Durham, Don was seen steering his Hawker Hurricane Mkll away from the village and crashing into a nearby potato field to avoid civilian casualties.



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