

Jack Wilfred Tylor
Updated:
06 OCT 2021
See photo
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 øst
for Langeland, i forbindelse med et bombetogt til Berlin.
Se
p256MACR og
Flyveruten.
Se
Google Map p256 HAL HX294
med angivelse af hvor flyverne landede. 1 mand omkom. 6 flyvere endte som
krigsfanger. (Kilde: En dråbe i havet) 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) Tylor var første mand til at springe ud med faldskærm.
(Kilde: En dråbe i havet)
Pilot Officer Jack Wilfred Tylor, 23 år,
var søn af Horace Wilfred Alfred og Ethel Rose Tylor, Katanning, Western
Australia.
(Kilde: CWGC)
7 flyvere. Se foto
On 29 January 1944
HAL HX294 crashed
into the sea
east of Langeland, in connection with a bombing raid on Berlin.
See p256MACR and
Flight Path.
See
Google Map p256 HAL HX294
with indications of where the airmen landed. 1 man perished. 6 airmen ended af
POWs. (Source: A drop in the sea)
The IBCC has operational details
at the end the entry about this airman. (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) Tylor was the first airman to bail out.
(Source: A drop in the sea)
Pilot Officer Jack Wilfred Tylor, 23, was
the
son of Horace Wilfred Alfred and Ethel Rose Tylor, of Katanning, Western
Australia. (Source: CWGC)
See photo
Cherished memories / of our loved one
Virtual War Memorial
Australia has
this.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 256.
See
466 Sqn RAAF -
Wikipedia * Australian War Memorial has
Halifax crew of No. 466
Squadron RAAF.
Halifax *
Halifax-BC
Museum.Canada *
Halifax-RAF Museum *
Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum.
See
Halifax Print and
Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Halifax III HX294 HD-A took off from RAF
Leconfield at 00.07 on 28 JAN 1944. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.)
7 airmen.
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