Irvine, Harold Oliver
Killed in Action 1945-01-03
Birth Date: 1919-July-28
Born:
Oliver A & Enid M Irvine
Home: Brinston, Ontario (parents)
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
215 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
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Base
RAF Dhubalia, India
Rank
Warrant Officer 1
Position
Warrant Officer 1
Service Numbers
R/119324
First Burial
Singapore Memorial Singapore
Took off from Dhubalia, India at 07:21 on a bombing raid to the Burma - Siam Railway bridge at Anakwin, Burma.
Shot down by flak on surrounding hills while attacking bridge and crashed at Tigen, Burma.
Killed includes Irvine:F/Lt Charles Milne Brodie RCAF J/24393 KIA Singapore Memorial, column 455.F/Lt Kenneth Denison Cox RCAF J/ KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 455.F/Lt Arthur Hugh Harris RCAF J/13395 KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 455.Warrant Officer Class 1 Harold Oliver Irvine RCAF R/119324 KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 455.Flying Officer James Murray Potts RCAF J/23534 KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 456.Pilot Officer William Leigh Washbrook RCAF J/93729 KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 457.Sergeant William David Adams RAF KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 451.Flight Sergeant Harry Dawson RAF KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 450.F/Lt Sao Hkun U RAF KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 446.Flying Officer James Hepworth Nesbitt RAF KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 448.WO Alfred Thomas Read RAF KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 449.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.comLiberator KH214
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
Liberator bomber
Wikipedia Liberator bomber 
Harold A Skaarup Web Page