Macaulay, Thomas Hadley Roderick

Killed in Flying Accident 1945-01-08

Birth Date: 1915

Born:

Son of Donald L. Macaulay and Margot Macaulay

Home: New Glasgow, Nova Scotia

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

1675 HCU- Heavy Conversion Unit

Base

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Position

Flight Lieutenant

Service Numbers

J/22098
Prev: R/50164

Home
Google MapNew Glasgow, Nova Scotia
First Burial
Google MapMilitary Cemetery, Khayat Beach, Haifa, Palestine
1675 HCU, Liberator VI EW101 was on a night training bullseye exercise in Palestine when it went into a spin in cloud and suffered structural failure, losing it's tail. The aircraft crashed and burned three miles north of Hadera, Palesti)ne. Six of the crew, not Canadians, W/O G.A. Clowes (RAF), Flight Sergeant C.G. Grubb (RAF, Sergeant J.A. Haddow (RAF), Flight Sergeant D.O. Lane (RAF), W/O J. Jones (RAF) and Flight Sergeant J.A. Woodgate (RAF) were also killed. (www.rafb24.com). Addendum: F/L. Macaulay was from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, not Winnipeg, and was with 424 Squadron at the time of his death. Detail provided by D.A. Stallard, Trenton, Nova Scotia.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Liberator EW101

Flight Lieutenant Macaulay, Thomas Hadley Roderick (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer
Killed in Flying Accident
1945-January-08
Khayat Beach War Cemetery, Haifa, Israel

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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