Jack Taylor

Jack George Neil Taylor was an American competition swimmer who competed for Ohio State University, and was an Olympic bronze medalist in the 100-meter backstroke at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Enlisting after the Olympics in June 1952 after graduating Ohio State, Jack died prematurely three years later at the age of 24 during his service with the U.S. Navy Air Corps when he crashed his fighter plane while practicing landing exercises at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on May 30, 1955.