Orton, Nelson Richard
Killed in Action 1945-03-22
Birth Date: 1924-February-17
Born:
Son of Wilfred Richard and Annie May Orton, of Birch Hills, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Home: Birch Hills, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
159 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Quo Non, Quando Non Wither not? when not?
Base
Rank
Pilot Officer
Position
Pilot Officer
Service Numbers
J/94676
Prev: R/158102
First Burial
Ranchi War Cemetery, India
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.comConsolidated Liberator B-24 / F-7
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
Liberator bomber
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Harold A Skaarup Web Page