Last Name	Lytle
First Name	Jack
Middle Name	Ernest
"Nickname" if any
Date of birth	9-14-1923
Place of birth	Lubbock Texas
Name of parents	Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Raymond Lytle Sr.
Mother's maiden name	Oma Melissa Hanna
Number of brothers	5
Number of sisters	2
His order of birth	6
High School attended	Morton High School
Year of graduation	1940
Occupation prior to Service	Aircraft worker
Date entered service	Jan 28, 1943
Was Airmen married at time of death	No
Engaged	No
Names of brothers and sisters	Edgar Raymond Jr., Floyd James, Lola Mae Stephens, Maurice, Verna Jeanetta Brown.
Town where buried	Morton Texas
Name of cemetery	Morton Memorial
What do you remember most about this man	Happy go-lucky, great smile, always pulling pranks on people. He was medium build,athletic.
Duty stations	Sheppard Field, Tx, Goodfellow Field, Tx, Foster Field Tx, Camp Harding, La, Bruning Field Ne.
Interesting Stories	Coming

The following are Emails, Telephone conversations, Letters and newspaper clippings. They contain the stories that creates those great feelings and emotions that makes one feel good about people, our country and ourselves.
Last statement not very P C, Sorry about that...dh

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A beautiful and touching letter written by Jack's mother to Mrs Sattler Sept 14 1944
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Note written by Verna Brown (Jack's Sister) to Larry Carpenter in 2000
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Email from Scott Buchanan (Verna's Grandson) to Larry Carpenter
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Telcon between Lola (Jack's Sister) and Larry C

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(Handwritten)
Morton Texas
Sept 14-1944

Dear Mrs. Sattler.

I want to thank you for being so good to write me. You will never know what your letter means to me, for I cannot find words to tell you. All I can do is say "Thank you".
I am sending you a clipping from his home paper. I believe Jack was one of the boys that you put the fire out on when you got to them for he couldn't have been burnt very bad. He had a wide expansion identification bracelet on his right arm and a watch on his left wrist. I have them both and can hardly tell that they have ever been burnt. Of course I can tell that they have been cleaned and polished. The crystal is gone from his watch, also the minute hand is gone, but it still runs.
All the children came home except the boy in the Navy.
Jack was the youngest of the 5 boys and the pet of the family. I never loved him more than I do the others, but he was the only single child we had left and I loved him so, and I?m glad to know that he went quick and didn't have to suffer first.
Does your sister-in-law live at Lake View North of Lubbock? If she does I know where it is at, for I live at a little town just 60 miles west. Tell her to write me if she lives north of Lubbock and I'll go see her.
No, Jack had never been over seas but would have been ready to go in about 4 weeks. Some tell me I ought to be glad he got killed before he went over. I know it wouldn't have hurt me any worse if he had been over there, for he wanted to go and do his part. He love flying and I don't regret him being a pilot. For when the Lord got ready for him to come home he would have taken him, regardless of where he was at.
We are farmers, though my husband has the School Tax Collectors job here in town. We live on the first farm north of town. We have a good crop. We raise maize and cotton mostly. This is a plains country and the sand can certainly blow in the spring. But we've lived here so long that no other place would be home to me.
The grave yard joins out farm on the North, so I'll always be close to Jacks grave. He's the only one of our children that is dead. I have 1 girl younger than Jack. She married last June.
Will close this letter by thanking you again for writing to me. Some of them told me I'd never get an answer to my letter when I wrote the Naper (NE) Post Master, but I guess there's kind people that will help one when needed all over the world.
Thanks again Good Luck to you and yours.

Mrs. Oma Lytle

P.S. I have a list of the names of the Boys that were killed with Jack. 5 of the Boys were called at the same time as Jack. They had gone through training together, got their wings the same day and were killed together. Oma.

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