Boyd, Spencer-Andrew

Son of Mary and Torfa, was born on 16.8.1923 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He had a high education, had a talent in mathematics and was very interested in flying. When England declared war on Germany, Spencer enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He completed his navigational course successfully, completed his career as a master sergeant, and was promoted to the rank of master sergeant in 1940. He was sent to serve in Alaska in 1940. He was promoted to the rank of air officer and was trained and trained as navigators for active duty. Left the Canadian Air Force and returned to the United States, where he received a position as a Naval School instructor, and after three months of training in the Marine Officer’s Division, where he obtained excellent results, he was transferred to the US Air Force. But served as a photographer on a 29-B aircraft based in Florida, and after the war he collaborated with a well-known Navot officer in preparing a new book edition In 1946 he was appointed director of an airport in New Jersey, and during the course of his tenure he flew heavy aircraft, returning to Chicago in 1947. In the spring of 1948, he volunteered for the Air Force But he managed to serve only a few weeks, and on July 18, 1948, he flew a plane with a number of passengers from Sodom to Tel Aviv, when the plane approached the landing in Sde Dov and was attacked by a gang of Arabs in the area. The plane killed five of them, including Spencer. After his death he was granted the rank of airborne officer (lieutenant). He was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Jaffa and his tombstone was engraved with the emblem of the Israel Defense Forces on the side of the Christian cross. On April 16, 1951, he was laid to rest in a special section of the Haifa military cemetery