Botting, Ross Malcolm

Killed in Action 1945-03-19

Birth Date: 1922-April-25

Born:

Son of Ross Botting, and of Ellen Botting, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Home: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

355 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Liberamus Per Caerula We liberate through tropical skies

Base

RAF Salbani, India

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/92204

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First Burial
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355 Squadron (Liberamus Per Caerula) Liberator VI EW180 "A" shot down by anti aircraft fire while bombing Prome, Burma. The aircraft's original target had been Na Noy, Burma, but left formation and re-routed to Prome. Flying Officer RM Botting RCAF), Warrant Officer MJ Dunn (RAFVR), FS AHE Floyd (RAF), Warrant Officer WP Tugwell (RAF), Flight Sergeant T Higginbotham (RAFVR), Flying Officer M Morrison (RAFVR), FS JL Richardson (RAFVR), FS GB Breachmore (RAFVR) and FS KH Choak (RAFVR) missing, presumed killed. This aircrew nave no known graves.

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Liberator EW180

Flying Officer Botting, Ross Malcolm (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-March-19
Singapore War Memorial, Singapore

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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