Chadwick, Leslie Anwyl (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1945-February-26

Pilot Officer Leslie Anwyl Chadwick RCAF

Birth Date: 1919-May-04

Born:

Harold & Gertrude Chadwick

Home: Fairville, New Brunswick (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

224 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Fedele All'Amico Faithful to a friend

Base

RAF Milltown

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Pilot Officer

Service Numbers

J/95233
Prev: R/154647

Home
Google MapFairville, New Brunswick (parents)
Memorial Location
Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 280

Took off from Milltown at 22:07 in Liberator Mk VIII (Sqn code XB-D Bomber Command) to carry out an anti-submarine patrol along the Swedish coast.

Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off, and it did not return to base.

Killed includes Chadwick: Flight Sergeant Joseph Leo Gallipeau RCAF R/195678 KIA Varberg Church New Cemetery Sec. C. 43. Flight Sergeant Thomas Edward Murphy RCAF KIA R/189573 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 282. Sergeant Maurice George Bliss RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 273. Sergeant Gilbert William Carter RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 274. Sergeant Dafydd Cynfal Davies RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 274. Flight Sergeant Ronald Hadlow RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 271. Flight Sergeant Cyril Jackson RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 271. F/Lt Claude Mapletoft RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 282. Flying Officer Reginald William Ponting RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 267. Flight Sergeant John James Williams RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 273.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Liberator serial: KG964

(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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unvetted Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page