Minson, Bernard Richard
Died 1943-11-24
Birth Date: 1916
Born:
Son of Charles and Mary Minson, of West Brompton, London.
Home: London, England
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
60 Group
Base
Rank
Sergeant
Position
Sergeant
Service Numbers
R/90624
Home
London, England
First Burial
Pershore Cemetery, Worcestershire, Uk
60 GT Unit, Malvern, England. Sergeant BR Minson (RCAF) died while on a Radar Test Flight in USAAF B-24 Liberator aircraft 42-40987. Unresponsive on the aircraft intercom, he was found unconscious, with his oxygen line detached. Unable to be revived, he was found dead upon landing at Defford/Worcestershire, England
Canadian Virtual War MemorialConsolidated Liberator B-24 / F-7
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
Liberator bomber
Wikipedia Liberator bomber 
Harold A Skaarup Web Page