McInnis, Daniel William

Killed in Action 1943-10-04

Birth Date: 1918-September-12

Born: Peakes Road, Prince Edward Island

Son of Daniel Alfred and Mary Amelia McInnis, of Peake Station, Prince Edward Island.

Home: Peakes Road, Prince Edward Island

Enlistment: Moncton, New Brunswick

Enlistment Date: 1941-09-17

Service

RCAF

Unit

53 Sqn- Squadron

Base

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Flight Sergeant

Service Numbers

R/126371

Home
Google MapPeakes Road, Prince Edward Island
First Burial
Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey, Uk
53 Squadron. Liberator aircraft BZ 753 was on an anti-sub patrol when the crew signaled they were being attacked by enemy aircraft. Flying Officer D.B. Stewart and FS F.F. Mercer were also killed. Six of the crew, not Canadians, missing presumed killed.Addendum: . C.W. Foster (RAF), FS.s A. Fieldhouse (RAF), W.F. Garrod (RAF), F/L,s J. Rintoul (RAF), and E.M.C. Guest (RAF) were also killed.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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Liberator BZ753

Flight Sergeant McInnis, Daniel William (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-October-04
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flight Sergeant Mercer, Fraser Frederick (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-October-04
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flying Officer Stewart, Donald Burton (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-October-04
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

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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