Cooper, Robert Morse (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-October-28

Pilot Officer Robert Morse Cooper RCAF

Birth Date: 1923

Born:

Parents: Robert & Ada Florence Cooper

Spouse: Betty Cooper, of Montreal, Quebec

Home: Montreal, Quebec (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

547 (AS) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)

Base

RAF Holmsley South

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Navigator

Service Numbers

J/17156

Home
Google MapMontreal, Quebec (parents)
Memorial Location
Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 245

Took off from Holmsley South in Liberator Mk VI on an anti-submarine patrol to the Skagerrak/Bergen Norway.

Details of the loss not found in the record.

Killed: Flying Officer Robert Morse Cooper RCAF J/17156 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 245. Flying Officer Thomas Keith Montgomery RCAF J/35549 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 247. Warrant Officer Class 1 Robert William Richard Shaw RCAF R/110325 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 254. Flying Officer Robert Mcnaughton Buist RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 204. Pilot Officer David Kenneth Caldwell RAAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 258. Flying Officer Peter Frank Lewcock RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 207. Flight Sergeant Peter Ashley Noel RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 221. WO Jack William Steed RNZAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 263. Pilot Officer Gordon Harries Tindall RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 212. WO Henry Charles White RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 215.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Liberator serial: EW299

(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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