Fallside, Lanarkshire, Scotland (parents)
Liberator GR.V BZ-811 - all RAF crew.
Warrant Officer George Robert Allbut RAF 1575053
Flight Sergeant John West Brookes RAF 968315
Sergeant James Williamson Burns RAF 1370730
Sergeant Robert Henry Franks RAF 3223009
Pilot Officer John Blair MacDonald RAF 198076
Flight Lieutenant John Neilson RAF 117697
Flight Sergeant Kenneth Gordon Parker RAF 1671715
Flying Officer Joseph Hancock Swinbanks RAF 172493
Burns, James Williamson (Sergeant)
Killed in Flying Accident 1945-June-02
Birth Date: 1920
Born:
Parents: Dennis C. Burns & Margaret Burns
Spouse:
Home: Fallside, Lanarkshire, Scotland (parents)
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RAF
Unit
111 OTU- Operational Training Unit (RAF)
Base
RAF Nassau, Bahamas
Rank
Sergeant
Position
Service Numbers
1370730
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)Crew or Other Personnel
Liberator BZ811
Liberator serial: BZ811
(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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