McDonald, George

Killed in Action 1943-08-24

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Birth Date: 1921

Born:

Home: Englee, Newfoundland

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RAFVR

Unit

160 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Api Soya Paragasamu We seek and strike

Base

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Sergeant

Service Numbers

798529

Home
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First Burial
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160 Burma Squadron (Api Soya Paragasamu). Liberator III aircraft FK 239 failed to return from operations. Pilot Officer J.A. Kidd and Warrant Officer B. Winter were also killed. Six of the crew, not Canadians, missing believed killed.Addendum: . Liberator aircraft FK 239 failed to return from operations. P/O. J.A. Kidd, WO. B. Winter and five RAF members of the crew F/0.s J.W. Campbell, W.A. Calder, Sgt.s L. Bambridge, R.W. Harrison, and H. Willeock were also killed.

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Liberator FK239

Pilot Officer Kidd, John Armand Boyd (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-August-24
Singapore War Memorial, Singapore

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Sergeant McDonald, George (RAFVR)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-August-24
Singapore War Memorial, Singapore

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Warrant Officer 1st Class Winter, Benjamin (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1943-August-24
Singapore War Memorial, Singapore

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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