Bowler, Albert Henry

Killed in Action 1943-03-23

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Birth Date: 1918-August-02

Born:

Son of Albert H. and Ethel M. Bowler; husband of Bridget Bowler, of Borrowash, Derbyshire.

Home: Sedgewick, Alberta

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RAFVR

Unit

511 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Surely and Quickly

Base

RAF Gibraltar

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

124347

Home
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First Burial
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511 Squadron (Surely and Quickly) Liberator II aircraft AL 587 carrying passengers, shot down by JU88 fighters in the Bay of Biscay on a flight from Gibraltar to Lyneham, England. Flying Officer AH Bowler (RAFVR)(Can)(511 Sqn), Flying Officer TJ Marriott (RCAF), Flying Officer JS Renouf (RCAF), Flying Officer OA Smith (RCAF), FS CE Ferro (RCAF), Sergeant LG Burry (RAFVR)(Nfld), Flight Sergeant WJ Hough (RNZA), Flying Officer F Stuart (RAAF), Flying Officer JG Green (RAFVR)(511Sqn), Sergeant F Boustead (RAFVR)(511 Sqn), Sergeant WA Upston (RAFVR) (511 Sqn), Flying Officer RS Tedder (RAFVR)(511 Sqn), Flight Lieutenant GTR Francis (RAFVR), Sergeant RP Marvin (RAFVR), AVM RPM Whitham CB OBE MC (RAF), Sergeant NR Knights (RAF), Lt PS Skelton RN, Col JE Morin Free French Army, Lt Col LW Armstrong-McDonnell Irish Guards all missing, presumed killed (Patrick & R. McNeill www.rafcommands.com)

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Liberator AL587

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Flying Officer Bowler, Albert Henry (RAFVR)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-March-23
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

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Sergeant Burry, Lloyd George (RAFVR)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-March-23
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flight Sergeant Ferro, Carlo Ernesto (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-March-23
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flying Officer Marriott, Terence James (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-March-23
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flying Officer Renouf, John Stanley (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1943-March-23
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flying Officer Smith, Owen Albert (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1943-March-23
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, 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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