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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
J/26908
Age:
26
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
February 2, 1920
Honaker
Enlistment:
August 2, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 15, 1946
Estevan, Saskatchewan
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Summit Sec. Lot 291. Grave 3.
Additional information
Son of Connley Trigg Jessee and Margaret Augusta Jessee, of Lebanon, Virginia, U.S.A., husband of Marjorie E. Jessee, of Vancouver.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant James Pyle Jessee
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Newspaper Clipping
The Estevan Mercury Thursday, Sept. 19, 1946.<P> Tribute to Airmen in Mass Funeral Service BY KAY MACREADY<P> Mass funeral services with full military honors were held in the drill hall at Estevan airport Wednesday afternoon for the 20 of 21 RCAF personnel who met their deaths in the crash of their Dakota transport plane at the airport Sunday morning just as other parts of the world were holding thanksgiving services in commemorating victory in the Battle of Britain. These airmen, many of whom wore decorations for valor, were killed in the line of duty just as the others who had given their lives in the defence of Britain. All Canada felt the loss in this second greatest air tragedy in Canadian aviation history, and Estevan, in particular, showed its feeling of sorrow by turning out in mass to mourn with those relatives who were able to be present.<P> Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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The Estevan Mercury Thursday, Sept. 19, 1946.<P> Tribute to Airmen in Mass Funeral Service BY KAY MACREADY<P> Mass funeral services with full military honors were held in the drill hall at Estevan airport Wednesday afternoon for the 20 of 21 RCAF personnel who met their deaths in the crash of their Dakota transport plane at the airport Sunday morning just as other parts of the world were holding thanksgiving services in commemorating victory in the Battle of Britain. These airmen, many of whom wore decorations for valor, were killed in the line of duty just as the others who had given their lives in the defence of Britain. All Canada felt the loss in this second greatest air tragedy in Canadian aviation history, and Estevan, in particular, showed its feeling of sorrow by turning out in mass to mourn with those relatives who were able to be present.<P> Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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The Estevan Mercury Thursday, Sept. 19, 1946.<P> Tribute to Airmen in Mass Funeral Service BY KAY MACREADY<P> Mass funeral services with full military honors were held in the drill hall at Estevan airport Wednesday afternoon for the 20 of 21 RCAF personnel who met their deaths in the crash of their Dakota transport plane at the airport Sunday morning just as other parts of the world were holding thanksgiving services in commemorating victory in the Battle of Britain. These airmen, many of whom wore decorations for valor, were killed in the line of duty just as the others who had given their lives in the defence of Britain. All Canada felt the loss in this second greatest air tragedy in Canadian aviation history, and Estevan, in particular, showed its feeling of sorrow by turning out in mass to mourn with those relatives who were able to be present.<P> Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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The Estevan Mercury Thursday, Sept. 19, 1946.<P> Tribute to Airmen in Mass Funeral Service BY KAY MACREADY<P> Mass funeral services with full military honors were held in the drill hall at Estevan airport Wednesday afternoon for the 20 of 21 RCAF personnel who met their deaths in the crash of their Dakota transport plane at the airport Sunday morning just as other parts of the world were holding thanksgiving services in commemorating victory in the Battle of Britain. These airmen, many of whom wore decorations for valor, were killed in the line of duty just as the others who had given their lives in the defence of Britain. All Canada felt the loss in this second greatest air tragedy in Canadian aviation history, and Estevan, in particular, showed its feeling of sorrow by turning out in mass to mourn with those relatives who were able to be present.<P> Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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The Estevan Mercury Thursday, Sept. 19, 1946.<P> Tribute to Airmen in Mass Funeral Service BY KAY MACREADY<P> Mass funeral services with full military honors were held in the drill hall at Estevan airport Wednesday afternoon for the 20 of 21 RCAF personnel who met their deaths in the crash of their Dakota transport plane at the airport Sunday morning just as other parts of the world were holding thanksgiving services in commemorating victory in the Battle of Britain. These airmen, many of whom wore decorations for valor, were killed in the line of duty just as the others who had given their lives in the defence of Britain. All Canada felt the loss in this second greatest air tragedy in Canadian aviation history, and Estevan, in particular, showed its feeling of sorrow by turning out in mass to mourn with those relatives who were able to be present.<P> Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of James Pyle Jessee
Inscribed "To my Mother" and signed "Jimmy," so this was the copy James gave to his mother Gussie Pyle Jessee. The photo was taken by Cheyne Studios, probably around 1940, most likely in Hampton, Virginia. Flt. Lt. Jessee was the son of Connally Trigg Jessee and Margaret Augusta "Gussie" (Pyle) Jessee. -
Photo of James Pyle Jessee
Pictures from Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa. -
Photo of James Pyle Jessee
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Photo of James Pyle Jessee
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of James Pyle Jessee
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Pyle Jessee
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Pyle Jessee
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Pyle Jessee
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Pyle Jessee
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Pyle Jessee
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Pyle Jessee
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Pyle Jessee
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Pyle Jessee
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Pyle Jessee
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Page 586 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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