Werner Leonard R.

Monuments

Anglo-American Memorial 1939-1945 (4th & 474th Fighter Groups)

Name:

Leonard R. Werner

Rank:

First Lieutenant

Serial Number:

O-796249

Unit:

334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group

Date of Death:

1945-11-21

State:

New York

Cemetery:

Cambridge American Cemetery, United Kingdom

Plot:

Tablets of the Missing

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Air Medal with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters

Comments:

Leonard R. Werner was born in 1915 in Bronx, New York. He served in the 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, as a First Lieutenant during World War II and was piloting the P-51 Mustang #44-13411 'Frankie' at the time of his death.

On 20 November 1944, he was lost on a bomber escort mission, aborted once the group was aloft and decided to go looking for targets to strafe in Coblenz area, with extensive cloud cover over the area. This secondary mission was abandoned and his aircraft became detached from a section in the cloud whilst returning to base and may have suffered from instrument failure in the cloud. He was last sighted over Ijmuiden, Holland.

1Lt Werner was declared "Missing in Action" on 21 November 1945. His name is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.abmc.gov, www.americanairmuseum.com