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Harper, Robert Howard DFC (Squadron Leader)

Killed in Action 1944-December-02

Birth Date: 1915-August-17 (age 29)

Born: Scott Saskatchewan

Home: Bassano, Alberta

Decorations: DFC


Distinguished Service Cross
Service
RAF
Unit
206 Sqn- Squadron
Rank
Squadron Leader
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
Pilot
Service Numbers
41177
206 Squadron (Nihil Nos Effugit). Liberator aircraft failed to return from a radar exercise off Bell Rock, Scotland. Warrant Officer F.R. Hall, Flying Officer S. Tulloch, and eight of the crew, not Canadians, were also killed. The aircraft was seen to catch fire in the air and crash in the sea four miles from Fife Ness, Scotland, an air-sea search was carried out to no avail. In 1940 -1941 Squadron Leader Harper completed over thirty operations on Anson aircraft with 206 Squadron.

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Squadron Leader Robert Howard Harper has no known grave.

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Liberator EV887

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.

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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last update: 2021-09-18 19:06:22

Liberator EV887



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