Chapman, Kenneth Louis
Killed in Action 1944-11-06
Birth Date: 1920-June-15
Born:
James L. Chapman & Bessie Aleda Chapman
Home: Meaford, Ontario (parents)
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
178 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Irae Emissarii Emissaries of wrath
Base
Rank
Flying Officer
Position
Flying Officer
Service Numbers
J/26001
Prev: R/176273
First Burial
British Military Cemetery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
178 Squadron (Irae Emissarii).
The crew of Liberator aircraft KH-100 were engaged in a supply drop when they crashed near Cornigrad, Yugoslavia.
Killed includes Chapman:Flight Sergeant William Francis Beary RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Serbia Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8.Sergeant Evan Kenneth Corcoran RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8.Flying Officer Owen Jones Cox RCAF J/24717 KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8.Flying Officer Amos Edwin Botsford Denovan RCAF J/25940 pilot KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8.Sergeant Raymond Foot Oliver James RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8.Flight Sergeant John Ward Norman RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8.Flight Sergeant John Humphrey Parry RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8.
addendum2: See page 116. F/O, K.L. Chapman and F/0. W.M. Chapman were brothers. Detail provided by Mr. & Mrs. W. Chapman, Meaford, Ontario.Cenotaph at Lakeview Cemetery, Meaford, Grey County, OntarioCenotaph reads date of death as 1944-11-05
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.comLiberator KH100
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