Taylor, John Elliott

Killed in Action 1944-07-15

Birth Date: 1918

Born:

Son of John Albert and Emma Pearl Taylor, of Brantford, Ontario.

Home: Brantford, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

206 Sqn- Squadron

Base

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/25052

Home
Google MapBrantford, Ontario
First Burial
Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey, Uk
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. Four others of the crew, not Canadians, missing believed killed.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Liberator EV947

Flying Officer Desilets, Albert Antoine (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-July-15
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flying Officer Echlin, Allan Grant (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-July-15
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flying Officer Forsyth, Alexander (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-July-15
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flying Officer Mollard, Lloyd Bemister (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1944-July-15
Skagen Kirkegard, Markvej, Skagen, Denmark

Flying Officer Taylor, John Elliott (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1944-July-15
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Consolidated Liberator B-24 / F-7

(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.
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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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