Birth Date: 1924
Born:
Son of Robert and Janet Milligan, of Maniwaki, Quebec.
Home: Maniwaki, Quebec
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
99 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Quisque Tenax Each tenacious
Base
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Position
Flight Sergeant
Service Numbers
R/74101
Maniwaki, Quebec
Hnong Pladuk Thailand
99 Squadron (Quisque Tenax). Two Liberator VI aircraft, KG 973 UX-O and EW 286 UX-H were in a mid-air collision on the way to bomb the rail station at Hnong Pladuk, Siam
FS JR Milligan was missing, presumed killed. FS Milligan has no known grave and is commemorated on the Singapore War Memorial
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
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Liberator bomber
Wikipedia Liberator bomber
Harold A Skaarup Web Page