DOB/DOD: September 30, 1928 (New York, NY) – February 26, 1952; 23 years old
MARITAL STATUS: Unmarried
LOCAL ADDRESS: 13 Harrison Avenue, New Canaan, CT
SERVICE NUMBER: 7192151
Korean War Project Key No: 35197
UNIT: Air Antisubmarine Squadron 25, USS Bataan (CVL-29)
FAMILY: Born to John F. (1888-1972) and Annie Quinn Lyons (1889-1976), both born in Ireland. One brother James (1923-1955). Three sisters Annie (1925-2005), Catherine (1927-1946), and Marie (1932-2012).
OTHER: He died of “other causes” in “non-hostile” action on February 26, 1952, on USS Bataan, Air Antisubmarine Squadron. It was a training accident aboard a plane piloted by Ensign George Carl Klieser, 23, of San Francisco, who was also killed in the accident.
From the Cruise Book of the USS Bataan, 1952, page 18: “On the evening of the 26th, Bataan felt her first pain of a new operation. An AF circled sickeningly and lost altitude. It fell into the sea, carrying with it a pilot and two crewmen. The pilot sank with the plane. One crewman was injured seriously, and he died in the water. There was some consolation for Bataan in the fact that one of the crewmen was rescued.”
Memorialized on Panel 96 of the Korean War Veterans Memorial, 900 Ohio Drive SW, Washington, DC
Petty Officer Lyons is buried in St. John’s Cemetery, 223 Richards Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut; Section A, Lot 44-45, Grave 6.
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