Flying Officer P Torkington-Leach
Peter Torkington-Leach
Named in the book
- Rank
- Flying Officer
- Squadron
- No 9 Squadron
- Fate
- Killed in a flying accident, 30 October 1939
- In the book
- Pages 95
From the book
The Dreaded Telegram
Gordon Thorburn’s “Bombers First and Last” identifies “South African F/O Peter Torkington -Leach” as being “the first man to shoot down a German aircraft in World War Two” during the attack on Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbuttel when 7 of the 29 bombers dispatched on the second day of the war failed to return.