John Frederick Myrick     Photo: Knud Riis    Updated: 09 MAY 2021

Airman: a014044.htm Surname: Myrick Init: J F Rank: P/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 78

P_link: p097.htm Plane: HAL W1233 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d110842 Buried_d: b270942 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 10. 19

Kl. 21.39 den 11. august 1942 lettede HAL W1233 fra RAF Middleton St. George på bombetogt mod
Mainz. Flyet styrtede i Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p097MACR)

J. F. Myrick blev begravet i Esbjerg den 27. september 1942. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) John Frederick Myrick, 21 år, var søn af  Willard R. og Edna L. Myrick,
Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra HAL W1233 blev begravet i Esbjerg. 6 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 7 flyvere.

At 21.39 on 11 August 1942 HAL W1233 took off from RAF Middleton St. George on a bombing raid targeting Mainz. It crashed in the North Sea. No survivors. (Source: p097MACR)

J. F. Myrick was buried in Esbjerg on 27 September 1942. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) John Frederick Myrick, 21, was the son of Willard R. and Edna L. Myrick,
of Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada. (Source: CWGC)
God who rules the air / is just / and I have found him / by my side
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 217.

1 airman from HAL W1233 was buried in Esbjerg. 6 airmen have no known grave.
No. 78 Squadron RAF *  Halifax * Halifax Print * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum *
Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Mk III at YAM 2019

Halifax II W1233 EY-W took off from  RAF Middleton St. George at 21.39 hrs on 11 AUG 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Archive Report.) 7 airmen.