Soroski, Billy William

Killed in Action 1944-09-19

Birth Date: 1922

Born:

Son of Fred and Mary Soroski, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. R.C. Portion.

Home: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

547 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)

Base

RAF Leuchars, Scotland

Rank

Warrant Officer 1

Position

Warrant Officer 1

Service Numbers

R/115731

Home
Google MapSaskatoon, Saskatchewan
First Burial
Google MapCity Road Cemetery, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
547 Squadron. Liberator aircraft EV 881 was in transit to a training area when it flew into the side of a hill four miles north-east of Maencloehog, Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire. FS J.D. Boyd, Sergeant A.H. Humphries (RAF), and one other member of the crew, not Canadian, were also killed.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Liberator EV881

Flight Sergeant Boyd, John Duncan (RCAF)
Navigator Bomb Aimer
Killed in Action
1944-September-19
City Road Cemetery, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, UK

Warrant Officer 1 Soroski, Billy William (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-September-19
City Road Cemetery, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, UK

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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