Hill, George William

Killed in Action 1945-06-12

Birth Date: 1924-September-18

Born:

Son of Roland E. Hill and Violet E. Hill, of Black Diamond, Alberta, Canada.

Home: Turner Valley, Alberta

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

356 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
We Bring Freedom And Assistance

Base

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Flight Sergeant

Service Numbers

R/222040

Home
Google MapTurner Valley, Alberta
First Burial
Google MapAkyab Military Cemetery, Burma
356 Squadron (We Bring Freedom And Assistance). The crew of Liberator aircraft KH 316 were bombing Japanese troop concentrations at Alugale, Burma when their aircraft burst into flames. The Liberator then hit a hill and disintegrated west of the village of Laungchaung, Maya Peninsula, Burma. F/Os F.R. Ross, R.G. Fisher, R.M. Clarke, FSs S.J. Veres, P.N. Humeniski, J.C. Hodichak, and two of the crew, not Canadians, were also killed.

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Liberator KH316

Flying Officer Clarke, Robert Mackenzie (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Military Cemetery, Akyab, Myanmar

Flying Officer Fisher, Ralph George Henry (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Htauk Kyant War Memorial Cemetery, Pyay Road, Yangon, Myanmar

Flight Sergeant Hill, George William (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Military Cemetery, Akyab, Myanmar

Flight Sergeant Hodichak, John Carl (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Htauk Kyant War Memorial Cemetery, Pyay Road, Yangon, Myanmar

Flight Sergeant Humeniski, Peter Nicholas (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Yangon/Rangoon War Cemetery, Yangoon, Myanmar

Flying Officer Ross, Floyd Reginald (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Htauk Kyant War Memorial Cemetery, Pyay Road, Yangon, Myanmar

Flight Sergeant Veres, Stephen John (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Military Cemetery, Akyab, Myanmar

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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