Chamberlin, John Gardiner (Warrant Officer 1st Class)

Killed in Action 1944-November-18

Warrant Officer 1st Class John Gardiner Chamberlin RCAF

Birth Date: 1923-October-01

Born: Montreal Quebec

Parents: Clifford William & Alda Graham Chamberlin

Spouse:

Home: Toronto, Ontario (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

53 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
United in Effort

Base

RAF Reykjavik, Iceland

Rank

Warrant Officer 1st Class

Position

Wireless Air Gunner

Service Numbers

R/144134

Home
Google MapToronto, Ontario (parents)
Memorial Location
Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 253

Took off from Reykjavik, Iceland on an anti-submarine patrol from which it did not return.

Lost to unknown circumstances.

Killed includes Chamberlin: Flying Officer Joseph Charles McIver RCAF J/17374 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 247. Warrant Officer Class 1 Hubert Andrew Stephen RCAF R/81700 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 254. Sergeant James Bassett RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 224. Flight Sergeant George Hamilton Cockburn RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 216. Flight Sergeant Arnold Palmer RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 221. F/Lt William Gordon Payne RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 203. WO Reginald Arthur Scott RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 214. Flight Sergeant Kenneth James Spackman RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 222. Flight Sergeant Louis Arthur Windress RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 223.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Liberator serial: EV895

(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