Bayard, John William

Killed in Action 1944-09-14

Birth Date: 1920

Born:

Son of Thomas Allen Bayard and Mary Martha Bayard, of Regina, Saskatchewan. Brother of Richard Lewis Bayard, who also served in the Royal Canadian Air Force and who died on October 10, 1943.

Home: Regina, Saskatchewan

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

206 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Nihil Nos Effugit Nothing escapes us

Base

RAF Leuchars, Scotland

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/24999

Home
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First Burial
Google MapLeuchars Cemetery, Fifeshire, Scotland
206 Squadron (Nihil Nos Effugit). Liberator aircraft it BZ 961 hit a hill and crashed at Fife, Scotland. Flying Officer G.J. Dunn (RAF), Warrant Officer G.J. Forbes (RNZAF), FS J.H. Williams (RAAF), and eight other crew members, not Canadians, were also killed.addendum: Liberator aircraft BZ 961 crashed into the RedstoneQuarry near Leuchars, Scotland. Seven RAF members of the crew, F/0.8 R. Taylor, G.J. Dunn,R.A. Alabster, R. Walker, P/O. W.H. Thompson, Sgt.s E.H. Wilkinson, H. Nimmo, WO, G.J.Forbes (RNZAF), and FS. J.H. Williams (RAAF) were also killed.

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Liberator BZ961

Flying Officer Bayard, John William (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1944-September-14
Leuchars Cemetery, Fifeshire, UK

Consolidated Liberator B-24 / F-7

(DND Photos via James Craik) (Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page)
Consolidated Liberator G.R. Mk. VIII, RCAF (Serial No. 11130) ex-USAAF Consolidated (Vultee) B-24L Liberator USAAF (44-50154)
ex-RAF (Serial No. 5009), ex-Indian Air Force (Serial No. HE773).
Currently preserved in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum Ottawa Ontario.
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The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American heavy bomber flown by the RCAF during the Second Word War. It was designed with a shoulder-mounted, high aspect ratio Davis wing which gave the Liberator a high cruise speed, long range and the ability to carry a heavy bomb load. Early RAF Liberators were the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic Ocean as a matter of routine. In comparison with its contemporaries the B-24 was relatively difficult to fly and had poor low speed performance; it also had a lower ceiling compared with the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Of the roughly 18,500 B-24s built in the USA during the war, 148 were flown by the RCAF on long range anti-submarine patrols, with the B-24 serving an instrumental role in closing the Mid-Atlantic gap in the Battle of the Atlantic. The RCAF also flew a few B-24s post war as transports.

Roughly half of all (RAF) Liberator crews in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theatre were Canadian by the end of the war. John Muir of Vancouver flew the longest mission of the war: 24hrs, 10mins from Ceylon to Burma and back. (Kyle Hood) Harold Skaarup web page


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