Birth Date: 1925
Born:
Parents: Henry & Caroline Barr
Spouse:
Home: Winnipeg, Manitoba (parents)
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
5 OTU- Operational Training Unit
Base
RCAF Stn. Abbotsford, BC
Rank
Sergeant
Position
Air Gunner
Service Numbers
R/291559
A practice bomb fouled the bomb-bay and exploded and the aircraft crashed near Point Roberts, Washington, USA.
Killed includes Barr: F/Lt Samuel Leslie Bowhay RCAF J4744 pilot KIA Three Hills Cemetery, Plot 12. Block C. Grave 1. Sergeant Thomas Michael Calloway RCAF K/268423 KIA Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, Block 3. Plot 19. Lot 10.
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
Winnipeg, Manitoba (parents)
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