Glenn Wyant Wonnacott
1920 - 1974

Glenn Wyant Wonnacott was the father of LeRoy Basil and Glenn Wyant II.
Glenn served in WW2 as a pilot, gaining the rare distinction of earning his Wings both with the US Navy and the British Royal Air Force. Glenn had hopped the border to Canada, enlisted in the RCAF and after basic training at No 10 Flying school was sent to Britain on attachment to the RAF in 1939. As a pilot he flew over 1,000 combat sorties. He was eventually credited with 3 combat kills and in the process managed to lose only two of the Kings aircraft.

In 1942 he was repatriated to the US Navy and became another footnote to history as one of the few pilots serving as US Naval Aviators that had official combat kills before graduation from Naval Aviator Training.Glenn's Navy service was from late 1942 to a few weeks after VJ day in 1945. An earlier RAF crash left him with some injuries that the Navy felt were serious enough to keep him from further combat duties. As a result he was posted to in 1943 to NAS Opa Locka where he was assigned duties as a command pilot on the staff of Commander South Atlantic Fleet.


There are two pictures. The first showing showing Glenn with his brother LeRoy L.. Glenn is proudly wearing both the wings of the US Navy on the left breast and the Royal Air Force on the right breast.
The second picture shows Grandfather Lavieres and Leroy's wife Betty standing alongside Glenn.

      

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Pictures supplied by Lee Wonnacott.

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