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Aircraft in Which Flown
The Consolidated Liberator B-24 was designed in less than a year and first flew on December 29, 1939. Five plants in the United States produced 18 481 of the bombers that saw service with the RAAF, RAF, RCAF, USAAF and USN. Its range of 3380 kilometres made it useful for bombing, anti-submarine warfare and transport duties. According to his flight log, D.F. Grose's first flight in a Liberator was for a radar exercise completed on September 8, 1944. On October 2, 1944 he made his next flight on a B-24 and after that he did not fly as a crew member on any other aircraft. Of his total logged hours of 255 hours and 25 minutes of day flying and 85 hours of night flying, 52 day hours and 13 night hours were spent flying in Liberators. Starting January 15, 1944 with a flight from Dorval to Bermuda he assumed duty as a navigator on a Liberator and he died when the Liberator in which he was flying ditched in the Indian Ocean on April 22, 1945. Sources Grose, Douglas Fraser. Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot. Royal Canadian Air Force. 1943-1945. "111 OTU Nassau, Island of New Providence,
Bahamas ~ 1942-43." Pathfinder Craig. 6 Aug. 2023. Web. 31 Oct. 2024
"Consolidated B-24D Liberator." National Museum of the United States Air Force. United States Air Force. nd. Molson, K.M.. Canada's National Aviation Museum. Ottawa: National Museum of Science and Technology, 1988. Go to the Uncle Doug Home Page. Go to the Eclectic Philatelist Home Page. Go to the Grose Educational Media Home Page. © Derrick Grose, 2024 |
