Chapman, Kenneth Louis (Flying Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-November-06

Flying Officer Kenneth Louis Chapman RCAF

Birth Date: 1920-June-15

Born:

Parents: James L. Chapman & Bessie Aleda Chapman

Spouse:

Home: Meaford, Ontario (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

178 (SD) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Irae Emissarii Emissaries of wrath

Base

RAF Amendola, Foggia, Italy

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

J/26001
Prev: R/176273

Home
Google MapMeaford, Ontario (parents)
Final Burial
Google MapEnglesko Vojno Groblje
Coll grave 7 B 1-8

178 Squadron (Irae Emissarii).

The crew of Liberator aircraft KH-100 were engaged in a supply drop when they crashed near Cornigrad, Yugoslavia.

Killed includes Chapman: Flight Sergeant William Francis Beary RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Serbia Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8. Sergeant Evan Kenneth Corcoran RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8. Flying Officer Owen Jones Cox RCAF J/24717 KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8. Flying Officer Amos Edwin Botsford Denovan RCAF J/25940 pilot KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8. Sergeant Raymond Foot Oliver James RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8. Flight Sergeant John Ward Norman RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8. Flight Sergeant John Humphrey Parry RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8.

addendum2: See page 116. F/O, K.L. Chapman and F/0. W.M. Chapman were brothers. Detail provided by Mr. & Mrs. W. Chapman, Meaford, Ontario.

Cenotaph at Lakeview Cemetery, Meaford, Grey County, Ontario Cenotaph reads date of death as 1944-11-05

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Liberator serial: KH100

(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