Leslie Hamilton

Military Person

– 1927

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Who was Leslie Hamilton?

Lieutenant Leslie Hamilton DFC was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. After a postwar spell of stunt flying as "The Flying Gypsy", he attempted the first nonstop east-west flight across the Atlantic Ocean. His Fokker F.VIIa name St. Raphael, was last seen in mid-Atlantic by USS Josiah Macy, a Standard Oil ship.

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Died
Aug 31, 1927
Atlantic Ocean

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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