Hall, Joseph (Flying Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1945-April-09

Flying Officer Joseph Hall RAF

Birth Date: 1915

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAF

Unit

111 (C) OTU- Operational Training Unit (RAF)

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Rank

Flying Officer

Position

passenger (pilot)

Service Numbers

54453

Final Burial
Google MapMount Royal Cemetery
Sec G 943 Grave 443

F/O Joseph HALL 54453 RAF, General Duties Branch, was a passenger on Liberator AM929 which crashed at St Simone, near St Hyacinthe, Quebec whilst on a flight to the United Kingdom.

In Carl Christie's book "Ocean Bridge",he gives, in his appendix, that a civilian on the ground was killed and 'two passengers' when the aircraft crashed after take off at St Simone, Quebec.

link to: http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=60115. This reports that: Pilot - G. I. Voorhees was an American civilian. 2nd Pilot - D. J. Mitchell was also an American civilian. Navigator - C3680 Flight Lieutenant M. S. Ferguson, R.C.A.F. *Flight Engineer - 937161 L. W. Smith (no rank given). Radio Officer - E. A. Hunt was a Canadian civilian. 1301067 L. A. C. E. J. Ready was a Finance Clerk. 71775 A. E. Colato (no rank given) was also a Finance Clerk.

Commonwealth Graves Commission recoded F/O Joseph HALL 54453 RAF, as a casualty.

*Dennis Burke, Dublin, in "Foreign Aircrew and Aircraft Ireland 1939-1945 www.ww2irishaviation.com states https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8OhSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N4EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2188%2C5453552 The Lethbridge Herald (Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada) April 11th, 1945 the other death was Douglas C Morrison, 24, passenger control officer with RAF Transport Command. He was from Montreal, and had servied two tours with Bomber COmmand as a Sergeant Air Gunner. His brother Guy Morrison was serving with the RCN.

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Liberator serial: AM929

(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.

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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