Perera, Kenneth Frederick (Flying Officer)

Killed in Action 1943-December-07

Flying Officer Kenneth Frederick Perera RCAF

Birth Date: 1921

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Home: London, Ontario

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

160 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Api Soya Paragasamu We seek and strike

Base

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Navigator

Service Numbers

J/14652

Home
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Final Burial
Google MapCommonwealth War Cemetery Kandy
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160 Burma Squadron (Api Soya Paragasamu). Liberator aircraft crashed. Addendum: The crew of Liberator aircraft BZ 885 took off on an anti-sub patrol when the aircraft dived into the ground, shortly after take-off, at Sigeriya, Ceylon. WO.s A.E. Ferguson, G.M. Stockwell, E.C. Currie, R.W. MacDonald, W.C. Love, F/O. D.G. Davie (RAF), and FS. D. Kirk (RAF) were all killed in the crash. The aircraft caught fire and the depth charges exploded.

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Crew or Other Personnel

Liberator BZ885

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Ewen Cameron Currie RCAF

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Currie, Ewen Cameron (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-December-07
Commonwealth War Cemetery Kandy, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Warrant Officer 2 Archie Earl Ferguson RCAF

Warrant Officer 2 Ferguson, Archie Earl (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-December-07
Commonwealth War Cemetery Kandy, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Wilford Clay Love RCAF

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Love, Wilford Clay (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-December-07
Commonwealth War Cemetery Kandy, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Warrant Officer 1st Class Roy William MacDonald RCAF

Warrant Officer 1st Class MacDonald, Roy William (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-December-07
Commonwealth War Cemetery Kandy, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Flying Officer Kenneth Frederick Perera RCAF

Flying Officer Perera, Kenneth Frederick (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1943-December-07
Commonwealth War Cemetery Kandy, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Warrant Officer 2nd Class George Michael Frederick Stockwell RCAF

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Stockwell, George Michael Frederick (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-December-07
Commonwealth War Cemetery Kandy, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Liberator serial: BZ885

(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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