Jones, George Ernest (Flying Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-December-03

Flying Officer George Ernest Jones RCAF

Birth Date: 1921-December-16

Born:

Son of Frederick and Nellie Jones; husband of Jean M. Jones, of Montreal, Quebec.

Home: Montreal, Quebec

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

99 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Quisque Tenax Each tenacious

Base

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/85027
Prev: J/895027

Home

Montreal, Quebec

Target

Hnong Pladuk Thailand

Memorial Location

Singapore War Memorial
Column 442

99 Squadron (Quisque Tenax). Two Liberator VI aircraft, KG 973 UX-O and EW 286 UX-H were in a mid-air collision off the southern Burmese coast in the Andaman Sea, near Tavoy Point, Burma. All 22 aircrew (11 per aircraft) were killed

Pilot Flying Officer GE Jones (RCAF) and crew, FS JR Milligan (RCAF), FS GE Tudor (RAFVR), Flying Officer RC O'Neill (RAAF), FS AH Brameld (RAFVR), FS JEJ Farrow (RAFVR), Pilot Officer EP Parcell (RNZAF), FS JF Grimshaw (RAFVR), FS H Pickup (RAFVR), Sergeant WJE Pugh (RAFVR) and FS SR Smith (RAFVR) were missing, presumed killed from KG 973 UX-O (www.rafb24.com)

They have no known graves and are all commemorated on the Singapore War Memorial

Pilot Flying Officer ND Harrison (RAAF) and crew, Sergeant FR Cragg (RAFVR), Flying Officer SD Booth (RAFVR), FS RES Sanger (RAFVR), FS BW Corrigal (RNZAF), FS M Schonberg (RAFVR), Sergeant WM Mann (RAFVR), Sergeant P McNerney (RAFVR), Sergeant DK Moss-Vernon (RAFVR), Sergeant GW Richards (RAF) and Sergeant R Robertson (RAFVR) were missing, presumed killed on EW 286 (A Storr; E Martyn at www.rafcommands.com)

There were no Canadian aircrew on EW 286 UX-H

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Liberator KG973

Flying Officer George Ernest Jones RCAF

Flying Officer Jones, George Ernest (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1944-December-03
Singapore War Memorial, Singapore

Flight Sergeant John Robert Milligan RCAF

Flight Sergeant Milligan, John Robert (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-December-03
Singapore War Memorial, Singapore

Liberator serial: KG973

(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

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