Martin Marauder
Martin Marauder Mk. I, RAF (Serial No. FK375), coded D, "Dominion Revenge", No. 14 Squadron, based at Fayid, Egypt, 28 Dec 1942. This aircraft was lost during a torpedo attack off Aghios Giorgios Island on 3 Jan 1943.
Martin B-26 Marauder Mk. I, IA, II, III, RAF. Only two RAF squadrons were equipped with the Marauder, both in the Desert Air Force, and only one Marauder squadron was ever active at any one time. The RAF received three B-26As for evaluation in the summer of 1942 and decided to adopt the type for tactical work in North Africa. Forty eight Marauder Is and IAs already allocated under lend lease were sent directly to the Middle East, where they were used by No.14 Squadron.
In RAF and Commonwealth service the B-26A was known as the Marauder Mk. I, the B-26B as the Marauder Mk. IA. A total of 52 Mk Is and IAs were received. The 250 B-26Fs delivered were known as the Marauder Mk. II and the 150 B-26Gs became the Marauder Mk. III. The Mk. I/IA and Mk. III were flown by the RAF while the South African Air Force (SAAF) received the Mk. II and Mk. III.
The only RAF squadrons to use the Marauder were Nos. 14 and 39 Squadrons of the Desert Air Force. No.14 was the first to receive the type in August 1942. Operations began on 28 October 1942 and the squadron used its Marauders for bombing, mine laying and shipping reconnaissance. In March 1943 the squadron moved to Algeria, where it began flying anti-submarine patrols. These continued after the squadron moved to Sardinia in June 43, and the last Marauder mission was flown on 21 September 1944, just before the squadron returned to the UK to convert to the Wellington.
No. 39 Squadron RAF acquired Marauders in December 1944, but the first Marauder mission wasn't flown until 7 February 1945. The squadron carried out shipping strikes along the French, Italian and Balkan coasts, alongside night intruder missions, and retained the Marauder until October 1945 when it moved to the Sudan. Harold Skaarup web page
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Canadian Aircraft Losses (16), Canadian Ferried (2)Marauder FB454
Omaha
IIIB
Known Squadron Assignments: 45
ex USAAF B-26C-MO. 41-354632024-03-09
Aircraft Ferrying 1943-10-13 to 1943-10-13
45 () Group (RAF) Nassau, Bahamas
45 Group, RAF Transport Command, Nassau, Bahamas. Marauder II aircraft FB 454, on a training flight with a crew comprised of four pilots, caught fire and crashed into the sea one mile west of Windsor Field, Nassau, Bahamas
F/O DW Cormack (RCAF) and F/O D Durward (RAFVR), F/O RH Barber (RAFVR) and F/L JG Owen DFC (RAFVR)(SA) were killed in this flying accident
The bodies of of F/O Barber and F/L Owen were recovered and are buried in the Nassau War Cemetery
F/O Cormack and F/O Durward were missing, believed killed and have no known grave
The missing are commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial
Ocean Bridge, The History of RAF Ferry Command by Carl A Christie page 321
[Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database]...
Assisbiz USAAF serial no 41-35463 Martin B-26C-30-MO Marauder
1943-October-13 KIFA RAFVR Flying Officer Roland Henry Barber 2022-12-11
1943-October-13 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Douglas Waitt Whitehurst Cormack 2024-04-181943-October-13 KIFA RAFVR Flying Officer Denis Durward 2022-12-11
1943-October-13 KIFA RAFVR Flight Lieutenant John Griffith Owen DFC 2022-12-11Marauder FB478
Omaha
IIIB
Known Squadron Assignments: 24
ex USAAF B-26C-MO. 41-35515 2024-03-091944-February-03 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Alexander Goyer 2023-07-16Marauder FB509
Omaha
IIIB
Known Squadron Assignments: 3
ex USAAF B-26C-MO. 2024-03-091944-May-17 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer John Wemyss Clark 2021-05-13Marauder FE203
Marauder FK119
Ferry Flight 1942-08-17 to 1942-08-17
() Ferry Command (RAF) Natal Brazil
45 Group RAF Transport Command, Dorval, Quebec. Marauder I aircraft FK 119 lost over the Atlantic Ocean out of Natal, Brazil en-route to Africa, cause unknown
Pilot Officer JJ Doran (RCAF), Sergeant GF Lyman-Dixon (RAF), Squadron Leader G Robinson (RAF) and one Canadian civilian Radio Officer, GH Randle, were missing, presumed killed in this flying accident
Ocean Bridge, The History of RAF Ferry Command by Carl A Christie page 314 Appendix B1942-August-17 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer James John Pierre Hector Doran 2023-01-091942-August-17 KIFA RAFVR Sergeant George Frederick Lyman-Dixon 2023-01-091942-August-17 KIFA RAF Civilian Gordon Henry Randle 2023-01-091942-August-17 KIFA RAF Squadron Leader Geoffrey Robinson 2023-01-09Marauder FK120
Middle River MD
Mk. l
Known Squadron Assignments: 14
ex USAAF B-26A 41-7390 2024-03-091944-May-07 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson 2021-08-13Marauder FK122
Middle River MD
Mk. I
Known Squadron Assignments: 14
ex USAAF B-26A 41-7357 2024-03-09Operational 1942-11-23 to 1942-11-23
14 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Landing Ground 224
14 Squadron (I Spread My Wings And Keep My Promise) RAF Landing Ground 224. WO2 DL Rawson (RCAF), F/O WR Bower (RCAF), Sgt E Cookson (RAFVR), Sgt HG Williams (RAFVR) and F/O PM Willis (RAFVR) were all killed when their B26A Marauder aircraft FK 122 crashed near Shallufa, Egypt. The tail fin separated from the fuselage during a low-level bombing practice, killing the entire crew
In a post in RAF Commands COL BRUGGY on 9th September 2011 states: "An Inquiry reported in due course and as a result all the Marauders were grounded to have the tail fins strengthened. The Glenn Martin Aircraft Corporation in the USA flew technicians to Egypt, who completed the necessary modifications to all the aircraft in a few days. Unfortunately this was not done until after two more aircraft had been lost with the loss of 21 lives"
Royal Air Force - RAF I Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives
Marauder I FK122 [Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database]...
1942-November-23 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer William Richardson Bower 2022-10-231942-November-23 KIFA RAFVR Sergeant Ernest Cookson 2024-04-071942-November-23 KIFA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Douglas Leroy Rawson 2022-10-231942-November-23 KIFA RAFVR Sergeant Hugh Garth Williams 2022-10-231942-November-23 KIFA RAFVR Flying Officer Peter McKenzie Willis 2022-10-23Marauder FK129
Middle River MD
Mk. I
Known Squadron Assignments: 45
ex USAAF B-26A 41-7373 2024-03-091943-June-22 Accident: 45 (AT) GROUP Loc: Borinquen & Deschod Is Names: Burbon | Lowell | Reginald | Vickery
Ferry Flight 1943-06-22 to 1943-06-22
45 () ()
45 Group Transport Command. Marauder aircraft FK 129 crashed into the sea 35 miles west of Borinquen and 15 miles north west of Deschow Island, Puerto Rico, during a trans-Atlantic flight with the loss of the entire crew, cause unknown
Canadian Civilian Radio Officer PA Vickery, Navigator WO2 RE Mudie (RAAF) and two American Civilians Pilots, BC Miller and LL Burchfield were all missing, preumed killed in this flying accident
The missing have no known grave and all are commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial
Ocean Bridge, The History of RAF Ferry Command by Carl A Christie pages 319-20
1943-June-22 KIFA RAF Civilian Lowell Luther "Butch" Burchfield 2022-12-071943-June-22 KIFA RAF Civilian Burton Craig Miller 2022-12-09
1943-June-22 KIFA RAAF Warrant Officer Class II Reginald Edward Mudie 2022-12-071943-June-22 KIFA RAF Civilian Philip Arthur Vane Vickery 2022-12-07Marauder FK130
Middle River MD
Mk. l
Known Squadron Assignments: 14
ex USAAF B-26A 41-7367 2024-03-091944-February-23 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Hudson Cecil Campbell 2023-12-131944-February-23 KIA RCAF Squadron Leader Howard Elsey 2021-08-061944-February-23 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harry Dwain Merkley 2021-08-16Marauder FK131
Middle River MD
Mk. l
Known Squadron Assignments: 14
ex USAAF B-26A 41-7395 2024-03-091943-December-15 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Wallace David Kearney 2021-08-121943-December-15 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Gordon Leonard Ready 2021-08-10Marauder FK133
Middle River MD
Mk. l
Known Squadron Assignments: 14
ex USAAF B-26A 41-73622024-03-09
1943-December-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Arnold Billings 2021-08-281943-December-28 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Richard Wallace Gilkey 2021-08-071943-December-28 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Donald Andrew Thomson 2021-07-171943-December-28 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Charles Zotique Toupin 2021-07-15Marauder FK154
Middle River MD
Mk. I
Known Squadron Assignments: 14
ex USAAF B-26A 41-7423 2024-03-091943-March-10 KIA RAF Flight Sergeant Walter Tatlow MiD 2021-06-02Marauder FK159
Middle River MD
Mk. l
Known Squadron Assignments: 14
ex USAAF B-26A 41-7399 2024-03-091944-April-19 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Allan Hutton 2022-12-201944-April-19 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Bernard Joseph Mackinnon 2021-08-161944-April-19 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Manley Power 2021-08-121944-April-19 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald Kilgour Schroder 2021-08-04Marauder FK362
Mk. la
Marauder FK371
Mk. la
Known Squadron Assignments: 14
Marauder FK373
Mk. la
Known Squadron Assignments: 14
Reconnaissance 1943-08-26 to 1943-08-26
14 (AS) Sqn (RAF) RAF Protville, Tunisia
14 Squadron RAF (I spread my wings and keep my promise) RAF Protville, Tunisia. B-26 Marauder 1a FK 373 S was reported shot down by a Ju52 transport aircraft while on a reconnaissance flight west of the Strait Bonifacio, between the islands of Corsica, France and Sardinia, Italy. There is also a claim by Oblt Franz Schiess of 8/JG53 for a Marauder shot down on this date in the same area. The bomber crashed near Livorno, Italy with one crew member killed
Sergeant A Phethean (RAFVR) was killed in action. Sergeant Phethean has no known grave and is commemorated on the Malta Memorial
Flight Lieutenant EL Archer (RCAF), Flight Sergeant JT Jones (RAF), Flying Officer JF Kennedy (RAF), Flight Sergeant GA Lindschau (RAAF) and Flight Sergeant AR Smith (RAF) survived and all were taken as Prisoners of War
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14sqn-association.org.uk/14_Squadron_Association/...
Asisbiz USAAF serial no 41-7413 Martin B-26A-1-MA Marauder
1943-August-26 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Edward Lawrence Archer 2023-10-081943-August-26 PoW RAF Flight Sergeant J T Jones 2023-06-151943-August-26 PoW RAF Flight Lieutenant John Fleming Kennedy 2023-06-161943-August-26 PoW RAAF Flight Lieutenant Gilbert Arthur Lindschau 2023-06-161943-August-26 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Alfred Phethean 2023-06-151943-August-26 PoW RAF Flight Sergeant Andrew Renton Smith 2023-06-15Marauder HD417
Baltimore
Mk. III
Known Squadron Assignments: 113; 445
Ex USAAF B-26F, serial number 42-96344 2024-03-09Ferry Flight 1944-05-28 to 1944-05-28
45 (T) Group (RAF) Nassau, Bahamas
45 Group Transport Command, 113 Wing, Nassau, Bahamas. Having successfully completed a trans-Atlantic crossing and continuing east across Africa, Marauder aircraft HD 417 caught fire in mid-air on approach to Khartoum, Sudan, crash landing ten miles east of the aerodrome, with the loss of the aircraft and entire crew
F/O DC Perkins (RCAF), F/O WG Cantlay (RCAF), P/O NJ Hodgins (RCAF) and WO RG Huxtable (RCAF) were all killed in this flying accident
Ocean Bridge, The History of RAF Ferry Command by Carl A Christie page 324
Ferry Flight 1944-06-03 to 1944-06-03
45 (T) Group (RAF) Nassau, Bahamas
45 Group Transport Command, 113 Wing, Nassau, Bahamas. Having successfully completed a trans-Atlantic crossing and continuing east across Africa, Marauder aircraft HD 417 caught fire in mid-air on approach to Khartoum, Sudan, crash landing ten miles east of the aerodrome, with the loss of the aircraft and entire crew
F/O DC Perkins (RCAF), F/O WG Cantlay (RCAF), P/O NJ Hodgins (RCAF) and WO RG Huxtable (RCAF) were all killed in this flying accident
In P/O Hodgins record in CVWM there is information that there may have been survivors from the crash of Marauder HD 417: P/O JB Spencer (RCAF), F/O BW Reed (RCAF) and P/O R Heggie (RCAF) but have been unable to find info on these airmen or confirm through any other source. Needs to be further researched
Ocean Bridge, The History of RAF Ferry Command by Carl A Christie page 324
1944-June-03 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer William Grant Cantlay 2023-12-231944-June-03 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Joseph Hodgins 2022-12-151944-June-03 KIFA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class Robert Gerald Huxtable 2022-12-151944-June-03 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Denis Clement Farmer Perkins 2022-12-15Marauder HD419
Baltimore
Mk. III
Known Squadron Assignments: 113
Ex USAAF B-26F, serial number 42-96346 2024-03-09Ferry Flight 1944-04-11 to 1944-04-11
45 () Group (RAF) Nassau, Bahamas
45 Group Transport Command (113 South Atlantic Wing), Nassau, Bahamas
Marauder aircraft HD 419 crashed at Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British Guyana after an engine cut out on take-off for a trans-Atlantic crossing, killing the entire crew
F/O RF Stubner (RCAF), F/O KF Probert (RCAF), P/O S Blackburn (RAF) and Canadian Civilian Pilot Captain HC Weiben were all killed in this flying accident
Ocean Bridge, The History of RAF Ferry Command by Carl A Christie page 323
1944-April-11 KIFA RAF Pilot Officer Stanley Blackburn 2022-12-101944-April-11 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Kenneth Frederick Probert 2022-12-101944-April-11 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Richard Frank Stubner 2023-07-161944-April-11 KIFA RAF Civilian Howard Cleylon Weiben 2022-12-10Marauder HD664
Baltimore
Mk. III
Known Squadron Assignments: 45
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