Champion, Alberta
356 Squadron (We Bring Freedom And Assistance). FSs Anderson, R.R. Halford, B.J. Johnston, Sergeant W.L. Thornton-White, F/Os J.L. Reid, J. MacLeod, J.W. Piercy, F/Ls L.W. Koehl, and P.A. McMaster were all killed when Liberator aircraft KG 831 was shot down 400 yards off shore at Moulmein, Burma.
Anderson, John William (Flight Sergeant)
Killed in Action 1945-May-27
Birth Date: 1923
Born:
Parents: Son of John Carl and Marguerite M. Anderson, of Champion, Alberta, Canada.
Spouse:
Home: Champion, Alberta
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
356 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
We Bring Freedom And Assistance
Base
RAF Salbani, India
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Position
Wireless Air Gunner
Service Numbers
R/278908
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
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Liberator KG831
Liberator serial: KG831
(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.
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.
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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