Personnel Index - Detail

Name
SLEE
First Names
Leonard Cain
Rank
Group Captain
Service
RAF
Service Number
32021
Crew Position
Pilot
Posting In
Posted in 5/42 and out 4/43

 

Awarded the DSO, DFC, DFC & Bar.

Flew 26 operations with 49Sqn.

The 18th CO.
 

49Sqn Association



 

Further details from John Ward (Association President )
W/C Slee the former CO was now station commander at Dunholme and as such a Group Captain.
This was the first 'shuttle' ie bomb a southern German target then fly on and land in Africa, bomb up and attack another target on the way home.
Slee came back to his old squadron to be Master Bomber on the raid.

The crew was put together especially for the occasion.

G E Fawke (Pilot)
No flight Engineer
St Claire-Miller (Navigator)
C K Astbury (Bomb Aimer)
J M Stewart (W/Op)
W P Mullock (Major shown in MUG position)
H W Mills (Rear Gunner)
L C Slee (Master Bomber)