PL - Eric Ogilvy Smith KIFA

ABOUT
CASPIR Data Archive Mission & Data Sources Significant Canadian Historians Our Team RCAF Assistance CASPIR Volunteering
CASPIR contains documents, images and history of Canada's military aviation. The personnel and aircraft data has been compiled using data provided by trusted Canadian military aviation historians and original source documents. Where possible source documents are linked.
RESEARCH
CASPIR Resources
RCAF Accident Cards (1939-1945)JA Griffin Documents 1968 and 2005 Obtaining a World War II Service File
External Resources
RCAF.info: Research Resources RCAF.info: Finding Your Family Records
Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg
John Griffin was a significant historian, documenting Canada's Military aircraft
AIRCRAFT
Military Aircraft Associated with Canadians Choose a Specific Aircraft Serial
Lancaster FM213
CWHM flies one of the two airworthy Lancasters in the world. FM213 is usually marked as KB726 honouring Andrew Mynarski, VC.
PERSONNEL
Name or Home Town Search Unit (Squadron) Search Aircraft Type or Serial Search Browse by Letter This Day in History Choose a Day in History
Prisoner of War Evaded Capture Interned in a Neutral Country Catastrophic Losses (Ships Hotels Aircraft)Choose Specific Military Cemeteries (WW1 WW2 and Beyond)
Andrew Mynarski, VC
We Shall Remember Them.
HISTORY
✅ Start Here ✅ Glossary ✅ Canada and World War II ✅ Combatants & First Airmen Casualties ✅ Air Force Operations ✅ Battle of Britain ✅ Women in War ✅ War Artists
"A" Able flying through the Eiffel Tower? (although this event likely happened, this photograph is likely fake.) It is signed by the late Bill Bryant RAF who was the navigator of that aircraft piloted by Bob Boorman RCAF. The caption reads "This Stars Stripes photograph was taken on 14 September 1944 and shows a Mosquito Mk XIII of 409 Squadron RCAF. Pilot - W/O Bob Boorman RCAF Navigator F/S Bill Bryant RAF Flying through the Eiffel Tower."
CONTACT
Click here for Information Requests & Data Submissions
NEW & INTERESTING
Exceptionally Interesting Stories and Aircraft What is new in CASPIR?

Smith, Eric Ogilvy (Flying Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1943-September-07

USA

Birth Date: 1922-January-06 (age 21)

Home: Seattle, Washington, USA

Service
RCAF

Unit
45 Group (RAF)

Rank

Flying Officer

Marshal
Air Chief Marshal	A/C/M
Air Marshal	A/M
Air Vice Marshal	A/V/M
Air Commodore	A/C
Group Captain	G/C
Wing Commander	W/C
Squadron Leader	S/L
Flight Lieutenant	F/L
Flying Officer	F/O
Pilot Officer	P/O
Warrant Officer 1st Class	WO1
Warrant Officer 2nd Class	WO2
Flight Sergeant	FS
Sergeant	SGT
Corporal	CPL
Senior Aircraftman	SAC
Leading Aircraftman	LAC
Aircraftman 1st Class	AC1
Aircraftman 2nd Class	AC2

Position
Pilot

Service Numbers
J/26221

45 Group, RAF Ferry Command, Dorval, Quebec. P/Os Smith, J.S. Cram, R.C. Lounsbury, W.A. Gardner, FS E.D. Rennick, WOs S.J. Donen, J. MacRae, and Flying Officer J.S. MacLean were all killed when their Liberator aircraft crashed at Accra.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave.com Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Home

Google Map

Seattle, Washington, USA

Burial
Google Map

Google Map

Christiansborg War Cemetery
Plot 1 Row A Grave 6

Liberator Express 4124140

Pilot Officer Cram, John Samuel (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-September-07
European Cemetery, Accra, Ghana

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Donen, Samuel Jacob (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-September-07
Christiansborg War Cemetery, Accra, Ghana

Pilot Officer Gardner, William Alexander (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-September-07
Christiansborg War Cemetery, Accra, Ghana

Pilot Officer Lounsbury, Ronald Cyrus (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-September-07
European Cemetery, Accra, Ghana

Flying Officer Maclean, John Scott (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-September-07
European Cemetery, Accra, Ghana

Warrant Officer 2nd Class MacRae, John (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-September-07
European Cemetery, Accra, Ghana

Flight Sergeant Rennick, Erle Donald (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-September-07
European Cemetery, Accra, Ghana

Flying Officer Smith, Eric Ogilvy (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-September-07
Christiansborg War Cemetery, Accra, Ghana

Consolidated Liberator Express C-87

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3643737)
(Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page)
Consolidated Liberator C Mk. VIT, RCAF (Serial No. 570), No. 168 (Heavy Transport) Squadron, based at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, 14 Nov 1944.

The Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express was a transport derivative of the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber built during World War II for the United States Army Air Forces. A total of 287 C-87s were built alongside the B-24 at the Consolidated Aircraft plant in Fort Worth, Texas. The plant also developed and delivered a USAAF flight engineer trainer designated as the AT-22, a United States Navy VIP transport designated as the RY, and a Royal Air Force VIP transport designated as the Liberator C.IX. The last development was a Navy contracted, single tail version with an extended fuselage. Built in San Diego, its USN designation was RY-3.

RCAF Consolidated Liberator C Mk. VI, Mk. VIT (B-24H/C-87), converted to transport aircraft. (10), (Serial Nos. 570, 571, 572, 573, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579).Harold Skaarup web page and Wikipedia

Wkikpedia Wikipedia Liberator Express Transport

General Harold A Skaarup Web Page

CASPIR Aircraft Groups:

Canadian Crewed (2)

last update: 2021-09-21 11:33:36

Liberator Express C-87-CF 4124140

© Canadian Warplane Heritage 2024