He returned to front line duty only to be shot down in aerial combat with Russian fighters on 6 July. He baled out of his stricken aircraft over Russian lines but was fortunate in that his parachute was blown back over German lines.
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Leie was killed over Czechoslovakia on 7 March 1945, when he collided with a crashing Russian Yak 9 fighter and failed to survive a low level bail-out from his Bf 109 G-14/AS
http://www.luftwaffe.cz/leie.html
Leie was killed over Czechoslovakia on 7 March 1945, when he collided with a crashing Russian Yak 9 fighter and failed to survive a low level bail-out from his Bf 109 G-14/AS