Toole, Edwin Archibald

Killed in Action 1943-11-04

Birth Date: 1919

Born:

Son of Frederick and Rachel Toole; husband of Anna Toole, of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Home: Amherst, Nova Scotia

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

148 (SD) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Trusty

Base

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Flight Sergeant

Service Numbers

R/53246

Home
Google MapAmherst, Nova Scotia
First Burial
Google MapBritish Military Cemetery At Belgrade, Yugoslavia
148 Squadron (Trusty). Liberator VII aircraft AL 509 flew into the top of a hill in Yugoslavia on special operation FUNGUS 35 four miles north of Injsii Dhmost, Yugoslavia. Flight Sergeant E.A. Toole, Warrant Officer Class 1 J.H.S. Clarke, Warrant Officer Class 1 R.E. Hawken, Flight Lieutenant E.B. Elliott (RCAF) (US), Flight Lieutenant H.I. Crawford (RNZAF), Flight Sergeant W.J. Dowle (RAF) and Flight Lieutenant M. Passmore (RAF) were killed (A. Tebbutt). Warrant Officer Hawken had survived an accident in a 23 OTU Wellington July 13, 1942. Flight Lieutenant Elliott had been involved in a supply and rescue flight to occupied Yugoslavia Oct. 21-24 Addendum: - FS Toole was 24 years old at the time of death. Detail provided by D.A. Stallard, Trenton, Nova Scotia.

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Liberator AL509

Male Head

Warrant Officer 1 Clarke, James Herbert Stevenson (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer
Killed in Action
1943-November-04
Englesko Vojno Groblje, Veljka Dugosevica, Belgrade, Serbia

Flight Lieutenant Elliott, Eldon Burke (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1943-November-04
Englesko Vojno Groblje, Veljka Dugosevica, Belgrade, Serbia

Warrant Officer 1st Class Hawken, Ralph Edward (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-November-04
Englesko Vojno Groblje, Veljka Dugosevica, Belgrade, Serbia

Flight Sergeant Toole, Edwin Archibald (RCAF)
Flight Engineer
Killed in Action
1943-November-04
Englesko Vojno Groblje, Veljka Dugosevica, Belgrade, Serbia

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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