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Crash P-51 Leakin Lizz

Stele in tribute to 2nd Lt. Willis W. REEVES, American pilot of the P-51 "Leakin Lizz" from the 355th Fighter Group358th Fighter Squadron of the 8th US Air Force Army who crashed on June 19, 1944, at the place called Bazeille following an aerial collision due to fog with another P-51 of Lieutenant Ralph Coleman.

He had taken off from his airfield, RAF Steeple Morden, for a bomber escort mission.
He rests at the Saint-James American Cemetery Plot E, Row 15, Grave 17
 
Contribution and photo credit to Eric Le Bourvellec

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