Brantford, Ontario (parents)
206 Squadron (Nihil Nos Effugit). Liberator aircraft EV 947 was shot down in the North Sea during a daylight anti-sub patrol. An empty dinghy was picked up in the patrol area east of Denmark a week later. F/Os L.B. Mollard, A. Forsyth, A.G. Echlin, A.A. Desilets, and Flying Officer J.A.W. Heatlie (RAF) were also killed.
Taylor, John Elliott (Flying Officer)
Killed in Action 1944-July-15
Birth Date: 1918
Born:
John Albert & Emma Pearl Taylor
Home: Brantford, Ontario (parents)
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
206 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Nihil Nos Effugit Nothing escapes us
Base
RAF Leuchars
Rank
Flying Officer
Position
Navigator
Service Numbers
J/25052
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Liberator serial: EV947
(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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