Bond, Walter George
Killed in Action 1945-06-19
Birth Date: 1924-February-25
Born: Dysart, Saskatchewan
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
Home: Grande Prairie, Alberta
Enlistment: Edmonton, Alberta
Enlistment Date: 1943-07-02
Service
RCAF
Unit
358 (SD) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Alere Flammam To feed the flame
Base
RAF Jessore, India
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Position
Flight Sergeant
Service Numbers
R/260658
First Burial
Singapore Memorial Singapore
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.comLiberator EW124
Consolidated Liberator B-24 / F-7
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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