Le Grow, Ronald Hun

Killed in Action 1944-08-18

Birth Date: 1922

Born:

Son of Peter A. Le Grow and Ivy S. Le Grow, of Port Arthur, Ontario.

Home: Port Arthur, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Decorations: DSO

Distinguished Service Order

Service

RCAF

Unit

59 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Ab Uno Disce Omnes From one learn all

Base

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/36472

Home
Google MapPort Arthur, Ontario
First Burial
Google MapWick Cemetery, Caithness, Scotland
59 Squadron (Ab Uno Disce Omnes). The crew of Liberator aircraft BZ 724 were on an anti- sub patrol when they flew into high ground three miles from Helmsdale, Sutherland, Scotland. F/O. R. Seigler, P/O. A.J. McLay (RAAF), Sgt.s T.H.W. lnstone (RAF), H.F.J. Newell (RAF), D. Pratt (RAF), and three others of the crew, not Canadians, were also killed.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Liberator BZ724

Flying Officer Le Grow, Ronald Hun (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1944-August-18
Wick Cemetery, Caithness, UK

Flying Officer Seigler, Robert (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1944-August-18
Glenduffhill Jewish Cemetery, Glasgow, UK

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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