McLellan, Vaughan Albert

Killed in Action 1944-06-19

Birth Date: 1921-November-19

Born:

Son of Vaughan Bertram and Eleanor Woods McLellan, of Moncton, New Brunswick.

Home: Moncton, New Brunswick

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

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

Base

RAF Geck Keflavic, Iceland

Rank

Warrant Officer 1

Position

Warrant Officer 1

Service Numbers

R/73406

Home
Google MapMoncton, New Brunswick
First Burial
Google MapTamlaght Finlagan Church Of Ireland Churchyard, Ballykelly, N. I.
59 Squadron (Ab Uno Disce Omnes). The crew of Liberator aircraft FL 989 were on an anti-sub patrol when they flew into high ground in cloud at Glengad Head, County Donagal, Ireland. Flight Sergeant RE. Baillargeon, F/S(s) K.J.N. Apitz (RAAF), B.A. Cooper (RAAF), J. Haines (RAF), and Flight Lieutenant R.P. Wade (RAF) were also killed. Addendum: Two Liberator aircraft crashed into the mountains at Stroove and Glengad on the same date, killing 16 airmen. On Sunday June 19, 1994 a commemoration service was held at Greencastle, close to where one of the aeroplanes came down. Crosses were erected in memory of those who lost their lives. The service was attended by around 200 people including the mayor of Londonderry, Jim Guy and East Londonderry M.P. William Ross. A number of wreaths were laid on the graves of the airmen following Sundays service, including one sent by the Air Chief Marshal of the Australian Air Force. Detail provided by David E. Thompson, Middlesborough, England.Addendum: 59 Sqn Liberator FL 989 crashed at Glengad, Republic of Ireland and 59 Sqn Liberator FL 990 crashed at Stroove, republic of Ireland both on 1944-06-19. Detail from www.rafcommands.com

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Liberator FL989

Flight Sergeant Baillargeon, Pierre Elzear Rodolphe (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-June-19
St Mary Roman Catholic Church Cemetery, Limavady, County Londonderry, Ireland

Warrant Officer 1 McLellan, Vaughan Albert (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-June-19
Tamlaght Finlagan Church Of Ireland Churchyard, Ballykelly, County Londonderry, Ireland

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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