Belkin, Paul (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1943-October-09

Pilot Officer Paul Belkin RCAF

Birth Date: 1921-March-06

Born: Moscow Russia

Son of Samuel and Bertha Belkin, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Home: Calgary, Alberta

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

159 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Quo Non, Quando Non Wither not? when not?

Base

RAF Salbani, India

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Pilot Officer

Service Numbers

J/87039
Prev: R/131677

Home
Google MapCalgary, Alberta
Final Burial
Google MapYangon/Rangoon War Cemetery
Coll grave 4 J 1-8
159 Squadron (Quo Non Quando Non). Liberator aircraft BZ 842 missing addendum: See page 43. Liberator aircraft HZ 842 shot down by fighter aircraft during a night attack on Mingaladin airfield on the north side of Rangoon, Burma. Seven RAF members of the crew, Sit. L.P. Massey D.F.C. & bar, WO.s W.G. Blue, R.A. Powrie, J.L. Risdale, A. Simpson, FS. R.A. Lewis, and Sgt. LE, Wadsworth were also killed. BELL, A.P, R189575. See page 43. The aircraft crashed at Dunmow, Essex, not Dumnon. S/L. G.O.S. Whitty D.F.C. (RAF), WO. J.G.J. Williams (RAF), FS. G.R. Douglas (RAF) and P/O. G.E. Ames (RAF) were also killed. Detail provided by A. E. Barnard, Burlington, On.

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Liberator serial: BZ841

(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.

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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