Goodenough, Carlton Stokes (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1942-March-16

Male Head

Birth Date: 1913-December-31

Born: Bury, Quebec

Parents: Son of Wright E. and Eva Stokes Goodenough.

Spouse: Husband of Margaret Bagley Goodenough of East Angus, Quebec.

Home: Bury, Quebec

Enlistment: Thetford Mines, Quebec

Enlistment Date: 1940-July-24

Service

RCAF

Unit

108 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Viribus Contractis With gathered strength

Base

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Observer

Service Numbers

R/62738

Home
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Final Burial
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Sec AS Grave 123

108 Squadron (Viribus Contractis). Liberator aircraft AL 577 was en route from Egypt and during the early part of the flight the crew acknowledged orders to return to Egypt as there was bad weather ahead. The aircraft was west of its course when it crashed in high ground at Jenkinstown, near Dundalk, Ireland.

Pilot Officer G.F. King, Flight Lieutenant F.C. Barrett D.F.C. (RAF), and one other RAF member of the crew were also killed.

unvetted Source Foreign Landing in Ireland

Cenotaph at Bury Cemetery, Bury, Estrie Region, Quebec, Canada

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Liberator serial: AL577

(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