Robertson, James Duncan Alexander

Killed in Action 1945-05-01

Birth Date: 1923-March-14

Born: St. Andrew, Jamaica

Son of Frederick Henry and Madge Robertson, of Half Way Tree, Jamaica.

Home: St Andrew, Jamaica

Enlistment: Montreal, Quebec

Enlistment Date: 1942-04-30

Decorations: DFC

Distinguished Service Cross

Service

RCAF

Unit

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

Base

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/29252
Prev: R/164565

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160 Squadron (Api Soya Paragasamu). Liberator aircraft BZ 868 was returning from a 22 hour flight laying mines off Burma when all four engines failed. The aircraft crash landed in heavy seas. Squadron Leader D.G. Joy and one of the crew, not Canadian, were also killed. Two Canadians, F/Os R.L. Freeman, C.M. Fisher, and three crew members, not Canadians, were taken Prisoners of War.Addendum: P/O. P.R. Ascott (RAAF) was also killed.

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Liberator BZ868

Squadron Leader Joy, Douglas Gordon Mackenzie (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1945-May-01
Singapore War Memorial, Singapore

Flying Officer Robertson, James Duncan Alexander (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1945-May-01
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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