Operation: Patrol
Date: 28th June 1944 (Wednesday)
Unit: No. 403 Squadron (RCAF)
Type: Spitfire IX
Serial: MJ988
Base: Advanced landing strip: B2 / Bazenville
Location: Falaise, France
Pilot: F/O. James Leon Lanfranchi J/18918 RCAF Age 26. Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
On a beachhead patrol in the early morning when following combat with Fw190 the engine failed.
Burial Details:
F/O. James Leon Lanfranchi. Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery. Grave: XXVIII.H.2. Son of Guido Lanfranchi, and of Martha Lanfranchi, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
With thanks to the following: Jane Chilvers (Photo of Lanfranchi), Phillippe Corvė (memorial photo's) "Fighter Command Losses" - Norman Franks, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember
them. - Laurence
Binyon
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