Campbell, Alexander Peter
Killed in Action 1945-03-26
Birth Date: 1923-February-08
Born:
Home: Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
354 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
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Base
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Position
Flight Sergeant
Service Numbers
R/163475
Home
Toronto, Ontario
First Burial
Singapore Memorial Singapore
Aircraft on Maritime Patrol over the Andaman Sea off Burma (Myanmar).
Located and attacked a convoy sinking the largest freighter (Japanese supply ship 'RISUI MARU', 1500 tons).Liberator damaged by marine flak and crashed in the sea.
Killed includes Campbell:Flying Officer Irving Lindzon RCAF J/42510 KIA Singapore Memorial Column 456.Flight Sergeant Jack Samuel McIver RCAF R/277937 KIA Singapore Memorial Column 458.F/Lt William Gordon McRae RCAF J/6834 KIA Singapore Memorial Column 455.Flying Officer Harry Parker RCAF J/43687 KIA Singapore Memorial Column 456.Flying Officer Edward Walter Pollard RCAF J/43686 KIA Singapore Memorial Column 456.Sergeant Gordon Parker RAF KIA Singapore Memorial Column 451.F/Lt Cyril John Slater RAF KIA Singapore Memorial Column 446.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.comLiberator EW319
Consolidated Liberator B-24 / F-7
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.
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
Liberator bomber
Wikipedia Liberator bomber 
Harold A Skaarup Web Page