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SASSY CHURCHYARD

Calvados

France
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​GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.9849, Longitude: -0.13817

Location Information

Sassy is a village 27 kilometres south-east of Caen, 32 kilometres south-west of Lisieux and 11 kilometres north-north-east of Falaise.

Historical Information

There are 2 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war here, 1 of which is unidentified, 12 yards south of the west door of the church.


Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Sassy Churchyard
Sassy Churchyard
Sassy Churchyard
Sassy Churchyard
Sassy Churchyard
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J/29172 Flying Officer 
Luis Perez Gomez
Pilot in 443 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
​16th June 1944, aged 21.

Pilot Officer Luis Perez-Gomez was the only Mexican national to serve and die in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Perez-Gomez was one of four Spitfire Mk.-IXBs, Blue Section of 443 "Hornet" Squadron RCAF, which were lost after an aerial battle against several German Fw-190 fighters near the French town of Sassy, Calvados, south of Caen. Only one pilot, Flight Lieutenant Donald M. Walz survived.

​Photo from Air Force magazine, Vol 21, No. 1, Spring 1997.


Sassy Churchyard
Sassy Churchyard
Sassy Churchyard

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Disclaimer


The casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the numbers quoted.
(The G. P. S. Coordinates are also taken from the C. W. G. C. site)


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  • France
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    • AISNE
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    • CALVADOS
    • EURE AND EURE-ET-LOIR
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