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Levitt, Isadore Samuel

    Date of birth:
    October 10th, 1913
    Date of death:
    May 30th, 1943
    Buried on:
    Air Forces Memorial Runnymede
    Service number:
    R/135017
    Nationality:
    Canadian

    Biography

    Flight Sergeant Isadore Samuel Levitt served as Navigator with No. 429 Squadron. He failed to return form a bomb mission to Wuppertal, Germany on May 30th, 1943. as navigator on Vickers Wellington Mk X, HZ471 that had commenced just after 22:00 on May 29, 1943. The rest of the crew was as follows:
    - Pilot, Flying Officer Bruce Andrew Richmond, J21221,
    - Wireless Operator, Flight Sergeant Edward George Collman (RAF),
    - Bomb Aimer, Flight Sergeant Robert Gordon Bailey (USA), R113936,
    - Warrant Officer Class II William Sherron Anglin, R95701.

    Isadore Samuel Levitt is being comemmorated at the Runnymede Memorial.

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    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    Flight Sergeant
    Unit:
    No. 429 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
    Awarded on:
    August 8th, 1946

    Awarded posthumously.
    RCAF Operational Wings

    Sources

    • Photo 1: Philip M. Green
    • - Canada at War
      - Letter of receiving Operational Wing

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