Date: 6th April 1943
Unit: 79th FG/86th FS
Type: P-40 Kittyhawk
Serial No. Unknown
Coded: Unknown
Location: Wadi Akarit Tunisia
Pilot: 1st Lt Obern Leatherman
REASON FOR LOSS:
Shot down by enemy ground fire while on a mission near the Wadi Akarit in southern Tunisia. Burial was made by enemy forces who placed a bent propeller blade at the head of his grave as a marker. The wreckage of his P-40 can been seen in the back ground of the above photo.
P-40 Aircraft from Uber’s squadron undergoing maintenance in Libya.
Burial Details:
First buried in the western desert, later reinterred in the USA in his home town cemetery in Ohio.