Chappise, Richard Robert
Killed in Action 1945-06-05
Birth Date: 1924-September-27
Born:
Samuel & Dina Chappise
Home: Chapleau, Ontario (parents)
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
99 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Quisque Tenax Each tenacious
Base
Rank
Flying Officer
Position
Flying Officer
Service Numbers
J/45991
Prev: R/149991
First Burial
Singapore War Memorial, Singapore
99 Squadron(Quisque Tenax) Liberator Mk VI KH-389 "V" crashed into the sea enroute to attack railway targets in Burma, leaving from the 99Sqn airfield at Mingaladon, Burma, just north of Rangoon.
The 'Lib' normally carried a crew of eleven. Once again only the fatalities have been listed with no complete crew list provided.
Killed:Flying Officer Frederick Vincent Brennan RCAF J/41002 KIA Singapore Memorial Column 455.Flying Officer Richard Robert Chappise RCAF J/45991 KIA Singapore Memorial Column 455.Warrant Officer Class 2 John Clayton Boye Ekeberg RCAF R/199396 KIA Singapore Memorial Column 457.Flight Sergeant Jack Abraham Farr RCAF R/290244 KIA Singapore Memorial Column 458.Flight Sergeant Kenneth Higgins RAF KIA Singapore Memorial Column 450.Flying Officer William Ernest Mittay RCAF J/45809 KIA Singapore Memorial Column 456.Flight Sergeant Michael Mostowy RCAF R/186675 KIA Singapore Memorial Column 458.Flight Sergeant Gordon William Alexander O'Connor RCAF R/288521 KIA Singapore Memorial Column 458.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.comLiberator KH389
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