Grande Prairie, Alberta
358 Squadron (Alere Flammam). Target - Siam.
Bond, Walter George (Flight Sergeant)
Killed in Action 1945-June-19
Birth Date: 1924-February-25
Born: Dysart, Saskatchewan
Parents: Son of Walter and Edith (ne Bolingbroke) Bond, of Grande Prairie, Alberta. Brother of Captain (Pilot) Thomas Carlisle Bond, Donald Gordon, Edith Hazel, Myrtle Munro and Mildred Aida. Flight Sergeant B
Spouse:
Home: Grande Prairie, Alberta
Enlistment: Edmonton, Alberta
Enlistment Date: 1943-July-02
Service
RCAF
Unit
358 (SD) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Alere Flammam To feed the flame
Base
RAF Jessore, India
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Position
Wireless Air Gunner
Service Numbers
R/260658
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Liberator EW124
Liberator serial: EW124
(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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