1673 Heavy Conversion Unit, India. Liberator aircraft lost height after take-off then hit a tree and crashed at the Kolar airfield, Mysor, India. Flying Officer J.G. King and four members of the crew, not Canadians, were also killed.
Moysey, Noel Harvey (Flying Officer)
Killed in Flying Accident 1944-August-13
Birth Date: 1922
Born:
Parents: Son of John Harold Luttrell Moysey and Mabel Maria Moysey, of Eston, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Spouse:
Home: Eston, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
1673 HCU- Heavy Conversion Unit
Base
Rank
Flying Officer
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
J/25821
Prev: R/147571
Home
Eston, Saskatchewan
Temporary Burial
American Mission Hospital Cemetery At Kolar
Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Liberator serial: EV813
(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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