Jack Wilfred Tylor                            Updated:  02 JAN 2012

Airman: a021001.htm Surname: Tylor Init: J W Rank: P/O Service: RAAF Sqdn: 460

P_link: p256.htm Plane: HAL HX294 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Langelandsbælt

Crash_d: d290144 Buried_d: b180444 C_link: c021.htm At_Next: Faaborg

Den 29. januar 1944 styrtede HAL HX294 i havet, måske her øst for Langeland, i forbindelse med et bombetogt til Berlin. Se Google Map p256 HAL HX294 med angivelse af hvor flyverne landede. 1 mand omkom. 6 flyvere endte som krigsfanger. (Kilde: AOD - se detaljer) Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:

"Flyet blev skudt ned af en tysk natjager, og hele besætningen sprang ud med faldskærm. - - -
Navigatøren, Pilot Officer Jack Tylor, landede i havet og druknede. Hans lig blev fundet ved Nakkebølle strand den 16. april og to dage senere blev han begravet på Fåborg kirkegård." (FT 85-78-20)

Pilot Officer Jack Wilfred Tylor, 23 år, var søn af Horace Wilfred Alfred og Ethel Rose Tylor, Katanning, Western Australia. (Kilde: CWGC) 7 flyvere.

On 29 January 1944 HAL HX294 crashed into the sea, maybe here east of Langeland, in connection with a bombing raid on Berlin. See Google Map p256 HAL HX294 with indications of where the airmen landed. 1 man perished. 6 airmen ended af POWs. (Source: AOD - see details)

(Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:
"The plane was shot down by a German night fighter and all of the crew bailed out. - - -
Navigator, Pilot Officer Jack Tylor landed in the sea and drowned. His body was found at Nakkebølle
Beach on 16 April 1944. He was buried at Faaborg 2 days later." (FT 85-78-20)

Pilot Officer Jack Wilfred Tylor, 23, was the son of Horace Wilfred Alfred and Ethel Rose Tylor, of Katanning, Western Australia. (Source: CWGC)
Cherished memories / of our loved one

See RAF - Handley Page Halifax * Bomber Command No. 466 Squadron RAAF.
466 Sqn RAAF - Wikipedia.  Australian War Memorial has this.
This Halifax took off from RAF Leconfield. Lost Bombers has this. 7 airmen.