George Tyler Updated: 18 MAY 2021
Airman: a050029.htm Surname: Tyler Init: G Rank: Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 207
P_link: p177.htm Plane: LAN W4945 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: At Remmerstrand
Crash_d: d290443 Buried_d: b050543 C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig, Grave 699
Natten
til den 29. april 1943 udførte RAF en større mineudlægningsoperation over
Østersøen
og de indre danske farvande, hvorunder mindst 10 bombefly blev skudt
ned på dansk område.
Dette Lancaster-fly blev således ramt af tysk
flak og styrtede ned vest for Oddesund-broen,
omkring her. Hele besætningen
omkom. Flyverne blev begravet i Lemvig efterhånden som de blev fundet.
(Kilder: FAF og AOD)
Hvordan blev flystyrtet oplevet af en dreng på 14 år? Se
en beretning fra Orla Marcel Hansen og
p177MACR.
Sgt G. Tyler blev begravet af sognepræsten
den 5. maj 1943.
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) George Tyler,
22 år, var fra Canada.
(Kilde: CWGC)
Se også
Minelægningsområder og
Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.
On the night before 29 April 1943
the RAF carried out a great minelaying operation over the Baltic
Sea and the inner
Danish waters, during which at least 10 bombers were shot down on Danish
territory. This Lancaster was hit by German flak and crashed west of the
Oddesund-bridge,
around here.
All of the crew perished. The airmen were buried in Lemvig in
the course of time when they were found.
(Sources: FAF and AOD)
Sgt G. Tyler was buried by the vicar in charge of the parish of Lemvig on 5 May 1943.
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) George Tyler,
22, was from Canada. (Source: CWGC)
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, P 1, P 109.
See No. 207
Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * 207
Squadron History *
Lancaster *
Lancaster Photos
Lancaster I W4945 EM-Z
took off from RAF Langar
at 20.55 hrs on 28 APR 1943.
(Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.) See also p177MACR. 7 airmen.