Clarke, Robert Mackenzie (Flying Officer)

Killed in Action 1945-June-12

Flying Officer Robert Mackenzie Clarke RCAF

Birth Date: 1915

Born:

Parents: William Edwards Clarke & Catherine McKenzie Clarke, of Vancouver, British Columbia

Spouse:

Home: Atlin, British Columbia

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

356 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
We Bring Freedom And Assistance

Base

RAF Mauripur. India

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/44024

Home
Google MapAtlin, British Columbia
Final Burial
Google MapMilitary Cemetery
Coll grave 10 J 1-9

Aircraft on a mission to attack target(s) in Burma when it entered cloud over Burma at 1000 feet altitude and collided with a hill.

Killed (9-man crew): 1945-06-12: Flying Officer Robert Mackenzie Clarke RCAF KIA Flying Officer Ralph George Henry Fisher RCAF Flight Sergeant George William Hill RCAF Flight Sergeant John Carl Hodichak RCAF Flight Sergeant Peter Nicholas Humeniski RCAF Flying Officer Floyd Reginald Ross RCAF Flight Sergeant Stephen John Veres RCAF and 2 other crewmen, not Canadians

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Liberator KH316

Flying Officer Robert Mackenzie Clarke RCAF

Flying Officer Clarke, Robert Mackenzie (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Military Cemetery, Akyab, Myanmar

Flying Officer Ralph George Henry Fisher RCAF

Flying Officer Fisher, Ralph George Henry (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Htauk Kyant War Memorial Cemetery, Pyay Road, Yangon, Myanmar

Flight Sergeant George William Hill RCAF

Flight Sergeant Hill, George William (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Military Cemetery, Akyab, Myanmar

Flight Sergeant John Carl Hodichak RCAF

Flight Sergeant Hodichak, John Carl (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Htauk Kyant War Memorial Cemetery, Pyay Road, Yangon, Myanmar

Flight Sergeant Peter Nicholas Humeniski RCAF

Flight Sergeant Humeniski, Peter Nicholas (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Yangon/Rangoon War Cemetery, Yangoon, Myanmar

Flying Officer Floyd Reginald Ross RCAF

Flying Officer Ross, Floyd Reginald (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Htauk Kyant War Memorial Cemetery, Pyay Road, Yangon, Myanmar

Flight Sergeant Stephen John Veres RCAF

Flight Sergeant Veres, Stephen John (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-June-12
Military Cemetery, Akyab, Myanmar

Liberator serial: KH316

(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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