Macrae, George Dougald

Killed in Action 1944-08-13

Birth Date: 1913-September-29

Born:

Son of Dougald John and Edna Eliza MacRae. Brother of Jamie Duncan MacRae who died on August 15, 1944 while serving with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's)

Home: Ardbeg, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

178 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Irae Emissarii Emissaries of wrath

Base

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/25149

Home
Google MapArdbeg, Ontario
First Burial
Google MapMilitary Cemetery At Cracow, Poland
178 Squadron (lrae Emissarii). The crew of Liberator aircraft EV 961 did not return from dropping containers to the underground in Warsaw, Poland. Lt P.G. Coutts (SAAF), FS H.V. McLanachan (RAF), Sergeants J.E. Porter (RAF), R.H. Scott (RAF), and A. Sharpe (RAF) were also killed. One other member of the crew, not Canadian, missing presumed killed.

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Liberator EV961

Flying Officer Macrae, George Dougald (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1944-August-13
Cmentarz Rakowicki - Rektorat KoscioĊ‚a Zmartwychwstania Panskiego, Rakowicka, Krakow, Poland

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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