Joseph Pierre Auguste
"Peter 'Pete' Logan" Lecoq

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Quoted from an email from Pierre's son Peter :

During the war, my father flew under an alias, Pete Logan. Why? During WW2, my father's mother and siblings lived in Bonneville, France, and my father's superiors felt that his family could face retaliation should the Germans ever learn of my father's French roots.

My father did have some claims; however, his records are incomplete. When he went from being Pierre Lecoq (R77174) to Peter Logan, the official records for Pierre Lecoq were totally erased or lost. If you log onto www.airforce.ca/wwii/ALPHA-LE.html , you call up all personel with surnames beginning with LE. When you scroll down, you'll see that there's no record of a LECOQ at all. That said, log onto www.airforce.ca/wwii/ALPHA-LO.html and scroll down to Logan, F/L Percival Nathanial Joseph (J17678). When you read the remarks, you'll notice the confusion as to which squadron Percival was affiliated with. What I do know, is that after my father's tour of duty ended in July of 1944, in lieu of returning to England for a rest, he donned civilian clothing and headed east to join his immediate family in Bonneville, FRANCE. Being perfectly bilingual, my father had no problem communicating in French. In order to reach his family, he had to travel through enemy occupied territory; hence, along the way he assisted the French Resistance movement in defying the Germans, and also assisted downed Allied pilots in their quest to escape enemy territory. I don't know exactly when my father returned to Canada, but he was in the reserves (City of Montreal 438 Squadron) after the war while attending McGill University (Medicine Class of 1952).

According to the official history of 403 Squadron (ISBN 0-9688969-0-1), on 23 June 1944, F/Ls Gordon and Logan
are credited with destroying one (1) FW190 each and damaging one (1) FW190 each.

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Pete and his 403 Squadron Spitfire

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--- Canadian Aces ---

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