Birth Date: 1923
Born:
George Wilbur & Beatrice Maud Chancey of St. John's, Newfoundland
Home:
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RAF
Unit
547 (CS) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Base
Rank
Sergeant
Position
Sergeant
Service Numbers
798750
Liberator GR Mk V BZ-882 crashed into Cardigan Bay, off the coast of Wales, nine miles north of Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, while on an exercise with a submarine to test new radar equipment.
After completing the exercise the aircraft turned toward the coast but started to lose height until crashing/ditching in the sea The crew of the affiliating submarine reported the crash.
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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