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Military service
Service number:
J/86883
Age:
19
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
159 (R.A.F.) Squadron
Birth:
July 7, 1924
Rangoon, Burma
Enlistment:
June 8, 1942
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
February 29, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 4, Row E,
Additional information
Son of Captain Herbert Ludlow and Olga Gwen Davis of Bombay, India. There is
a seven-in-nine chance that Pilot Officer Davis lies in Rangoon War Cemetery, Myanmar. The individually unidentified remains of only seven of the nine crewmen from his bomber are buried there in Plot 4, Row E, Graves 14 to 20. Each grave marker reads: An Airman of the 1939-1945 War, Royal Air Force, 29th February 1944, Known unto God.
Pilot Officer Davis and his eight crew members are also commemorated by name on the Singapore Memorial, Singapore. Pilot Officer Davis is commemorated on column 443.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Michael Ludlow Davis
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Photo of Michael Ludlow Davis
Bombay, India, late '43 or early '44. Michael Ludlow Davis with family & his pilot. L-R: F/Sgt Allan Arnold, RAAF; Joyce Davis, sister; Capt Herbert Davis, father; Michael; Olga, mother. Allan skippered Michael's 159 Sqn Liberator when they & crew were shot down & killed by night fighters over Rangoon, Burma on 29 February 1944. -
Photo 2 of Michael Ludlow Davis
Michael Ludlow Davis, RCAF, later P.Officer J/86883. Rear gunner on 159 Sqn Liberator BZ962 "D", shot down over Rangoon by fighters night of 29 Feb 1944. 7 of 9 crewmen's bodies found in 1951, buried in Rangoon War Cemetery as unknowns. <P> Michael's Liberator was one of two from 159 Squadron lost on 29 Feb 1944 to the guns of Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar" fighter pilots Bunichi Yamaguchi (19 aircraft shot down) and Hiroshi Takiguchi (9 aircraft shot down) of the 204th Sentai, Japanese Army Air Force. Each bomber was attacked from behind after searchlights had illuminated it for the fighters. -
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Photo 2 of Grave Marker
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Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Ludlow Davis
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Ludlow Davis
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Ludlow Davis
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Ludlow Davis
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Ludlow Davis
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Ludlow Davis
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Ludlow Davis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 287 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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