Hallett, Wilfred Archibald

Killed in Action 1944-04-17

Birth Date: 1914-May-10

Born: Poplar Point Manitoba

Son of Robert C. and Mary Irene Hallett, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Home: Poplar Point, Manitoba

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

53 Sqn- Squadron

Base

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Flight Sergeant

Service Numbers

R/166246

Home
Google MapPoplar Point, Manitoba
First Burial
Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey, Uk
53 Squadron. Liberator aircraft lost.addendum 2: See page 294, The crew of Liberator aircraft BZ 945 failed to return from an anti-sub patrol over the Bay of Biscay, believed lost to enemy action whilst attacking an enemy U-boat. The last signal indicated they were investigating a contact thought to be an enemy submarine. F/0. E.J. Hagen, FS.s C.R. Newell, T.R. McDennon, and seven of the crew, not Canadians, were also killed.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Liberator BZ945

Flying Officer Hagen, Elmer James (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1944-April-17
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flight Sergeant Hallett, Wilfred Archibald (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-April-17
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flight Sergeant McDennon, Thomas Roy (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-April-17
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flight Sergeant Newell, Claude Ralston (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-April-17
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

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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