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Chevrier, Joseph Adelard Real (Leading Aircraftman)

Killed in Action 1944-September-24

Birth Date: 1915-December-09 (age 28)

Born: Vaudreuil Quebec

Arthur & Aldina Boileau Chevrier

Loretta Chevrier, of Verdun, Quebec

Home: Verdun, Quebec

Service
RCAF
Unit
1 PDC- Personnel Dispatch Centre (RAF)
Base
RAF Pershore
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Marshal
Air Chief MarshalA/C/M
Air MarshalA/M
Air Vice MarshalA/V/M
Air CommodoreA/C
Group CaptainG/C
Wing CommanderW/C
Squadron LeaderS/L
Flight LieutenantF/L
Flying OfficerF/O
Pilot OfficerP/O
Warrant Officer 1st ClassWO1
Warrant Officer 2nd ClassWO2
Flight SergeantFS
SergeantSGT
CorporalCPL
Senior AircraftmanSAC
Leading AircraftmanLAC
Aircraftman 1st ClassAC1
Aircraftman 2nd ClassAC2
Position
Motor Transport Specialist
Service Numbers
R/54834

Took off from Pershore with 14 other transport aircraft on a troop transport flight to Karachi, India. The first stop was to have been Cagliari, Sardinia.

The DC-3 strayed off course due to bad weather into Germany, where it was shot down by a fighter aircraft. All aboard the aircraft were killed.

Killed includes Chevrier: Corp. James Ernest Allen RCAF R/116919 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 23. LAC Lawrence Irwin Beach RCAF R/53101 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. Sergeant George Beckoff RAAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC Oliver Eugene Debs Bergen RCAF R/198657 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 22. LAC Robert Thomas Burden RCAF R/163109 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. Corp. William Howard Campbell RCAF R/72053 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC Joseph Robert Marcel Armand Couturier RCAF R/174379 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. Corp. James Cumming RCAF R/10195A KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC Frederick Robert Leigh Gates RCAF R/150018 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 18-19. LAC Maxwell James Foch Good RCAF R/169520 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 18-19. Sergeant Walter Francis Hughes RCAF R/58248 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. Corp. Howard John Hunter RCAF R/159360 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 25. F/Lt Ralph Korer RAF pilot KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC Fred Larson Kristensen RCAF R/191794 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC William John Scott Lundy RCAF R/194702 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC Donald John MacDonald RCAF R/176956 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. Corp. Lorne Hamilton Moreau RCAF P/10407 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. AC1 John Dunlop McVie RCAF R/258359 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. Corp. Frederick William Sargeant RCAF R/212995 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC John Cyril Sutherland RCAF R/72988 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 24. Pilot Officer Lionel Alfred Veary RAF Nav KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC Henry Studwell Watson RCAF R/270640 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.

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Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Leading Aircraftman Joseph Adelard Real Chevrier was exhumed and reburied.

Home
Google MapVerdun, Quebec
First Burial
Google MapNeuleiningen Cemetery, Germany, Near Crash Site
Re-Burial
Google MapSoldaten Friedhof Alliierte Piloten 2WK
Collective Grave 19 A 18-19

Dakota KG653

Douglas Dakota Skytrain C-47 DC-3 AC-47 R4D Spooky Gooney Bird

Douglas C-47 Dakota
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

Development of the Douglas DC-3 started in early 1935 with the prototype flying by the end of the year. The first production aircraft was delivered to American Airlines in July 1936 and soon orders were pouring in from US and overseas airlines. The US Air Corps became interested in the DC-3 and ordered a military version, called the C-47 or Dakota. It had many capabilities, including dropping paratroops and supplies, evacuating the wounded, troop transportation and glider towing. Eventually, about 10,000 C-47s were built for the US military.

During WW II, the Royal Air Force received about 1,930 Dakotas and they became the RAF's main wartime transport aircraft. The RCAF took delivery of its first Dakota in March 1943, and at its peak had 169 on strength. Within Canada, they were operated by four transport squadrons and several ferry squadrons.

Overseas, Dakotas equipped RCAF 437 Squadron in Europe and RCAF 435 and 436 Squadrons in South East Asia. 437 Squadron was formed in England September 1944, where it supported the British and Canadian Armies fighting in Europe. Its most important actions involved glider towing for the airborne landings at Arnhem and the Rhine crossing at Wesel.435 and 436 Squadrons were formed in India in October 1944. They flew Dakotas in support of the British 14th Army in Burma where they dropped supplies to the British troops fighting the Japanese in the jungle.

At the end of WW II, all three squadrons were transferred back to England to provide air transport for the Canadian occupation forces in Germany. Dakotas continued in service with the Canadian Armed Forces until 1989, when 402 Squadron, based in Winnipeg, retired the last of them. Of the nearly 13,000 DC-3s built, many are still in service today, over 75 years after the aircraft's first flight.

The Museum's Dakota was built for the USAAF and was delivered to the Royal Air Force in February 1944 as FZ692 and the Royal Canadian Air Force 437 Squadron in September 1944. It was later renumbered as 12945 as part of the Canadian Armed Forces where it served with 424 Squadron for Search & Rescue at CFB Trenton. It performed JATO ignition in flight at the 1970 Canadian National Exhibition Air Show on the Toronto waterfront.

After it was struck off strength by the Canadian Armed Forces in 1973, the aircraft ended up with Environment Canada, where it was used for mineral and environmental surveys. C-GRSB was donated to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in May 2014.

FZ692 has been restored to the paint scheme it would have worn at the end of World War II with 437 Squadron RCAF. FZ692 flew 208 operational trips with 437 Squadron and 16 with 233 Squadron for a total of 224. It ended up flying hundreds of individual legs between airfields in Europe. FZ692 participated in two major airborne operations, Normandy and the Rhine Crossing. It carried 298 casualties to medical aid and repatriated 456 prisoners of war. It carried over 5,100 passengers to destinations around Europe and carried over two hundred tons of freight (414,368 lbs). CWHM

YouTube C-47 Skytrain

Wkikpedia Wikipedia C-47 Skytrain

General Harold A Skaarup Web Page

Museum CWHM Flightlines

Museum Canada Aviation Museum Dakota Overview

Canada Source Dakota Maintenance Manual

last update: 2023-07-22 19:20:00

Dakota Mk. III KG653

C-47A-20-DK 42-93546 to USAAF May 31, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG653 via RAF Montreal Jun 6, 1944. RAF UK Jun 12, 1944. Assigned to No. 1 Ferry Unit, but operated by No. 437 (T) Squadron, RCAF, when it was lost in Europe on 24 September 1944, carrying ground crew destined for RCAF Dakota squadrons in the Far East. Apparently strayed off course in bad weather during delivery flight to Middle East. Shot down by Hptm Lulius Meimberg in Bf 109G-14 of JG 53/Stab II at Neuleiningen, Germany Sep 24, 1944. 2 crew and 20 passengers killed.

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