Wharram, Charles Russell

Killed in Action 1943-09-02

Birth Date: 1917

Born:

Son of Lawson and Emily Wharram, of Leamington, Ontario, Canada.

Home: Wheatley, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

224 (B) Sqn- Squadron

Base

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Position

Flight Lieutenant

Service Numbers

J/6941

Home
Google MapWheatley, Ontario
First Burial
Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey, Uk
224 Squadron (Fedele All Amico). The crew of Liberator aircraft 959 were engaged in an anti- sub patrol when they were attacked and shot down by enemy fighter aircraft on September 2. FL. Wharram and one of the crew, not Canadian, were killed in the fight. Flying Officer J.C. Miller died of his wounds on September 8, and four members of the eight man crew, not Canadians, were picked up alive on September 9.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Liberator FL959

Flying Officer Miller, James Clayton (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-September-02
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flight Lieutenant Wharram, Charles Russell (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-September-02
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, 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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