Schroeder, William Gerald

Killed in Action 1945-02-09

Birth Date: 1918-February-07

Born: McGillvary Township, Ontario

Son of William Wesley Schroeder and Edith Lyle Schroeder, of Centralia, Ontario. Formerly commemorated on Column 455 of the Singapore Memorial.

Home: Centralia, Ontario

Enlistment: London, Ontario

Enlistment Date: 1941-08-04

Service

RCAF

Unit

159 (BR) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Quo Non, Quando Non Wither not? when not?

Base

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Position

Flight Lieutenant

Service Numbers

J/12468

Home
Google MapCentralia, Ontario
Target
Google MapKhalHuaGang India
First Burial
Google MapTaukkyan War Cemetery, Rangoon, Burma
159 Squadron (Quo Non Quando Non). Target - Khal-Hua-Gang, India.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Findagrave.com

Liberator KH255

Pilot Officer Conway, Francis James (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-February-09
Yangon/Rangoon War Cemetery, Yangoon, Myanmar

Flying Officer Johnson, Kristinn Gudmundur (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer
Killed in Action
1945-February-09
Yangon/Rangoon War Cemetery, Yangoon, Myanmar

Flying Officer McMillan, Richard Lyle (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1945-February-09
Singapore War Memorial, Singapore

Flight Lieutenant Schroeder, William Gerald (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1945-February-09
Yangon/Rangoon War Cemetery, Yangoon, Myanmar

Flying Officer Talbot, Robert (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-February-09
Htauk Kyant War Memorial Cemetery, Pyay Road, Yangon, Myanmar

Flying Officer Zakow, Nick (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1945-February-09
Yangon/Rangoon War Cemetery, Yangoon, Myanmar

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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