William Thomas Kyle Rank: Flight Sergeant Status: Killed in Flying Accident 1942-02-20

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Kyle, William Thomas (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1942-February-20

Birth Date: 1915 (age 27)

Mr and Mrs W H Kyle

Home: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Service
RCAF

Unit
17 OTU- Operational Training Unit (RAF)

Base
RAF Upwood

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Marshal
Air Chief Marshal	A/C/M
Air Marshal	A/M
Air Vice Marshal	A/V/M
Air Commodore	A/C
Group Captain	G/C
Wing Commander	W/C
Squadron Leader	S/L
Flight Lieutenant	F/L
Flying Officer	F/O
Pilot Officer	P/O
Warrant Officer 1st Class	WO1
Warrant Officer 2nd Class	WO2
Flight Sergeant	FS
Sergeant	SGT
Corporal	CPL
Senior Aircraftman	SAC
Leading Aircraftman	LAC
Aircraftman 1st Class	AC1
Aircraftman 2nd Class	AC2

Position
Pilot

Service Numbers
R/71497

Blenheim IV Z5899

Operational 1942-February-20 to 1942-February-20

17 (OT) OTU (RAF) RAF Upwood

17 Operational Training Unit (Forged To Fight) RAF Upwood. Blenheim IV aircraft Z5899 was flying on a low level navigation training exercise when the starboard aircraft wingtip hit a barrage balloon cable and it crashed at Bearwood, Staffordshire, England, killing the entire crew

Flight Sergeant WT Kyle (RCAF), Sergeant LS De Lisser (RAFVR) and Sergeant E Scott (RAFVR) were all killed in this flying accident

General {Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database

General 17 O.T.U. LOSSES

Flight Sergeant Kyle was BROTHER of Flight Sergeant Wilton Henry Kyle (RCAF) serving as a Navigator with 45 Group RAF Transport Command who was killed in the crash of Liberator AL 591 1943-02-09 at Gander Newfoundland

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Home

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Burial
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Sutton Coldfield Cemetery
Grave 3

Blenheim Z5899

Sergeant De Lisser, Louis Stanhope (RAFVR)
Navigator
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-February-20
cemetery unknown

Flight Sergeant Kyle, William Thomas (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-February-20
Sutton Coldfield Cemetery, The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, UK

Sergeant Scott, Ernest (RAFVR)
W/Op-AG
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-February-20
cemetery unknown

Bristol Blenheim

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3602838)
Bristol 142M Blenheim Mk.V, RAF (Serial No. DJ702).

The Bristol Blenheim is a British light bomber aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company (Bristol) which was used extensively in the first two years and in some cases throughout the Second World War. The aircraft was developed as Type 142, a civil airliner, in response to a challenge from Lord Rothermere to produce the fastest commercial aircraft in Europe. The Type 142 first flew in April 1935, and the Air Ministry, impressed by its performance, ordered a modified design as the Type 142M for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a bomber. Deliveries of the newly named Blenheim to RAF squadrons commenced on 10 March 1937. Wikipedia

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