Birth Date: 1917-July-23
Born:
Parents: Son of Philip and Belinda King, of New Toronto, Ontario.
Spouse:
Home: Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
108 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Viribus Contractis With gathered strength
Base
Rank
Pilot Officer
Position
Observer
Service Numbers
J/15525
Prev: R/66969
Toronto, Ontario
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.
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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Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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