Clarke, James Herbert Stevenson
Killed in Action 1943-11-04
Birth Date: 1919
Born:
Elizabeth H. Clarke, Moncton, New Brunswick.
Home: Moncton, New Brunswick (mother)
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
148 (SD) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Trusty
Base
Libya
Rank
Warrant Officer 1
Position
Warrant Officer 1
Service Numbers
R/79118
First Burial
British Military Cemetery At Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Liberator of 148 Sqn took off from its Libyan base for a supply-dropping mission for Yugoslav partisans, codename Fungus 33, from which it did not return. It was later learned that it struck a hilltop four miles north of Kosinjski Zamost, 60 miles southeast of Fiume, on the Adriatic coast of Croatia, and the seven crew were killed.
Killed includes Clarke:F/Lt Eldon Burke Elliott RCAF J/4524 KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. D. 1-7.Warrant Officer Class 1 Ralph Edward Hawken RCAF R/81068 KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. D. 1-7.Flight Sergeant Edwin Archibald Toole RCAF R/53246 KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. D. 1-7.F/Lt Hugh Irvine Crawford RNZAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. D. 1-7.Flight Sergeant William Joseph Dowle RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. D. 1-7.F/Lt Maurice Passmore RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. D. 1-7.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.comLiberator AL509
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