London, Ontario
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.
Perera, Kenneth Frederick (Flying Officer)
Killed in Action 1943-December-07
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
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Liberator serial: BZ885
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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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