Gillespie, Edward Bruce

Killed in Action 1943-10-26

Birth Date: 1921-January-11

Born:

Son of Edward and Sarah Margaret Gillespie; husband of Barbara Letitia Gillespie, of St. Vital, Manitoba.

Home: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

160 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Api Soya Paragasamu We seek and strike

Base

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Flight Sergeant

Service Numbers

R/133826

Home
Google MapWinnipeg, Manitoba
Target
Google MapNicobar Islands India
First Burial
Google MapSingapore Memorial Singapore
160 Burma Squadron (Api Soya Paragasamu). Liberator aircraft lost.addendum 2: See page 263. Liberator aircraft FL 926 failed to return from a photo reconnaissance trip over Nicobar Island in the Andaman Sea. F/0.s C. Hamann, W.A. Wallace and five RAF members of the crew FS.s H.R. Crust, T. Lecky, Sgt.s C.R. MacGregor, R. Morgan, and F/0. H.P. Willson were also killed.Cenotaph at St. John's Norway Cemetery and Crematorium, The Beaches, Toronto Municipality, Ontario, Canada

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Liberator FL926

Flight Sergeant Gillespie, Edward Bruce (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-October-26
Singapore War Memorial, Singapore

Male Head

Flying Officer Hamann, Charles William (RCAF)
Navigator Bomb Aimer
Killed in Action
1943-October-26
Singapore War Memorial, Singapore

Male Head

Flying Officer Wallace, Walter Allison (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-October-26
Singapore War Memorial, Singapore

Consolidated Liberator B-24 / F-7

(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.
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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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