Clark, Donald Kenneth

Killed in Action 1945-01-14

Birth Date: 1923-March-26

Born:

Home: Brownsburg, Quebec

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

223 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Alae Defendunt Africam Wings defend Africa

Base

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Flight Sergeant

Service Numbers

R/207938

The crew of Liberator aircraft TT-336 were on a special night patrol when their aircraft crashed and burned twelve miles south-east of Antwerp, Belgium.

Killed includes Clark:Sergeant Arthur Leslie Evens RCAF R/185896 pilot KIA Leopoldsburg War Cemetery grave IV. D. 7.Flight Sergeant William Alexander Gray RCAF R/223012 KIA Leopoldsburg War Cemetery grave IV. D. 10.Flying Officer Geoffrey Robert Palmer RAAF KIA Leopoldsburg War Cemetery grave I. B. 14.WO John George Galley RAF KIA Leopoldsburg War Cemetery Coll. grave IV. D. 9-12.Sergeant Robert Hartop RAF KIA Leopoldsburg War Cemetery grave IV. D. 6.Flying Officer Frank Arthur Mason RAF KIA Leopoldsburg War Cemetery Coll. grave IV. D. 9-12.WO Robert Edward Ralph RAF KIA Leopoldsburg War Cemetery grave IV. D. 5.F/Lt George Trail RAF KIA Leopoldsburg War Cemetery grave IV. D. 8.

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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