Currie, Ewen Cameron
Killed in Action 1943-12-07
Birth Date: 1918
Born:
Hammond J. Currie & Marion Cameron Currie, of Montreal, Quebec
Home: Sydney, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
160 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Api Soya Paragasamu We seek and strike
Base
RAF Sigiriya, Ceylon
Rank
Warrant Officer 2nd Class
Position
Warrant Officer 2nd Class
Service Numbers
R/124726
Home
Sydney, Nova Scotia
First Burial
Kandy War Cemetery, Colombo, Ceylon
Airborne from Sigiriya at 05:20 on an anti-sub search. Crashed two minutes later. The takeoff was normal, but at 600 feet the aircraft, in a starboard turn, dove into the jungle. The depth charges exploded and the aircraft burned out.
Killed includes Currie:Warrant Officer Class 2 Archie Earl Ferguson RCAF R/131186 KIA Commemorated, Kandy War Cemetery, Sri Lanka, Plot 1. Row C. Grave 2.Warrant Officer Class 2 Wilford Clay Love (Amer.) RCAF R/125492 pilot KIA Kandy War Cemetery, Plot 2. Row C. Grave 2.WO Roy William MacDonald RCAF R/85926 KIA Kandy War Cemetery, Plot 1. Row C. Grave 3.Flying Officer Kenneth Frederick Perera RCAF J/14652 KIA Kandy War Cemetery, Plot 2. Row D. Grave 6.Warrant Officer Class 2 George Michael Frederick Stockwell RCAF R/129291 KIA Kandy War Cemetery, Plot 1. Row B. Grave 5.Flying Officer Douglas Gordon Davie RAF KIA Kandy War Cemetery.Flight Sergeant Dennis Kirk RAF KIA Kandy War Cemetery.
class="citation">Detail provided by D.A. Stallard, Trenton, Nova Scotia.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.comLiberator BZ885
Consolidated Liberator B-24 / F-7
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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