Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
224 Squadron (Fedele All Amico). Liberator aircraft BZ 776 failed to return from an anti-sub patrol over the Bay of Biscay. WOs M.H. Penhale and H. Thornton were also killed. Seven of the crew, not Canadians, missing believed killed.
McCartney, John Charles (Sergeant)
Killed in Action 1944-March-20
Birth Date: 1920
Born:
Parents: Son of Peter and Dorothy McCartney; husband of Doris Edith McCartney, of Toronto, Ontario.
Spouse: Husband of Doris Edith McCartney, of Toronto, Ontario.
Home: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RAF
Unit
224 Sqn- Squadron
Base
Rank
Sergeant
Position
Flight Engineer
Service Numbers
542139
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Liberator BZ776
Liberator serial: BZ776
(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.
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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