Grant, Walter Robert (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1945-February-19

Pilot Officer Walter Robert Grant RCAF

Birth Date: 1924-September-02

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Home: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

11 (BR) Sqn- Squadron

Base

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Wireless Air Gunner

Service Numbers

J/53002
Prev: R/182753

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Memorial Location
Google MapOttawa War Memorial
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Crew or Other Personnel

Liberator 3715

Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Frank Rowe Apps RCAF

Flight Lieutenant Apps, Geoffrey Frank Rowe (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1945-February-19
Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Pilot Officer Walter Robert Grant RCAF

Pilot Officer Grant, Walter Robert (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-February-19
Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Flight Lieutenant Deryck Hogan RCAF

Flight Lieutenant Hogan, Deryck (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1945-February-19
Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Flight Lieutenant Earl Clifford Ireland RCAF

Flight Lieutenant Ireland, Earl Clifford (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1945-February-19
Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Flight Sergeant Donald Angus Maclellan RCAF

Flight Sergeant Maclellan, Donald Angus (RCAF)
Flight Engineer
Killed in Action
1945-February-19
Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Flight Lieutenant Daniel Joseph Murphy RCAF

Flight Lieutenant Murphy, Daniel Joseph (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-February-19
Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Warrant Officer Harry Leo Teasdale RCAF

Warrant Officer Teasdale, Harry Leo (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-February-19
Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Liberator serial: 3715

(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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Aircraft Images

Liberator 3715

Liberator GR Mk. VI 3715

Ex USAAF B-24J-70-CF serial number 44-10637. Used by No. 11 (BR) Squadron at Dartmouth, NS from August 1944. Coded "F". Lost at sea on 19/20 February 1945. Disapppeared without a trace while on anti-submarine sweep. Some wreckage may have washed up on Sable Island.

1944-08-03 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1945-February-19 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Not Known Names: Apps | Grant | Hogan | Ireland | Mclellan | Murphy | Teasdale
1945-03-20 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Unit Desciption

11 (BR) Sqn ()