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CASPIR contains documents, images and history of Canada's military aviation. The personnel and aircraft data has been compiled using data provided by trusted Canadian military aviation historians and original source documents. Where possible source documents are linked.
Research

CASPIR Resources

RCAF Accident Cards (1939-1945) JA Griffin Documents 1968 and 2005 Obtaining a World War II Service File

External Resources

RCAF.info: Research Resources RCAF.info: Finding Your Family Records

Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg

John Griffin was a significant historian, documenting Canada's Military aircraft.
Aircraft

Military Aircraft Associated with Canadians Choose a Specific Aircraft Serial

Lancaster FM213

CWHM flies one of the two airworthy Lancasters in the world. FM213 is usually marked as KB726 honouring Andrew Mynarski, VC.
Personnel

Name or Home Town Search Unit (Squadron) Search Aircraft Type or Serial Search Browse by Letter This Day in History

War Status Search Catastrophic Losses (Ships Hotels Aircraft) Choose Specific Military Cemeteries (WW1 WW2 and Beyond)

Andrew Mynarski, VC

We Shall Remember Them.
History

Education & History
Start Here Glossary Canada and World War II Combatants & First Airmen Casualties Air Force Operations Battle of Britain Women in War War Artists Canada in Korean Air War 1950-1953

Blogs & Articles
CASPIR Overview First World War Neighbourhood - Dufferin & Dupont Canada's First Military Aeroplane 1917

"A" Able flying through the Eiffel Tower? (although this event likely happened, this photograph is likely fake.) It is signed by the late Bill Bryant RAF who was the navigator of that aircraft piloted by Bob Boorman RCAF. The caption reads "This Stars Stripes photograph was taken on 14 September 1944 and shows a Mosquito Mk XIII of 409 Squadron RCAF. Pilot - W/O Bob Boorman RCAF Navigator F/S Bill Bryant RAF Flying through the Eiffel Tower."
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Dawson, Harry Nichols (Leading Aircraftman)

Killed in Flying Accident 1941-January-07

Leading Aircraftman Harry Nichols Dawson RCAF

Birth Date: 1918-April-07

Born:

Parents: Son of Sidney A. Dawson and Ethel Rose Dawson, of St. James.

Spouse:

Home: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

2 SFTS- Service Flying Training School

Base

RCAF Stn. Uplands, Ontario (Ottawa)

Rank

Leading Aircraftman

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

R/59332

Home

Google Map

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Final Burial

Google Map

St John's Cemetery
Lot 45 Row X

LACs Dawson and J.R. Dority were engaged in instrument flying and were both killed when Harvard aircraft 2589 crashed near Orleans, Ontario.

Canada Primary Source School Daily Diary Entry - 1941-01-07

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Harvard 2598

Leading Aircraftman Harry Nichols Dawson RCAF

Leading Aircraftman Dawson, Harry Nichols (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1941-January-07
St John's Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Joseph Raymond Stewart Earl Dority RCAF

Leading Aircraftman Dority, Joseph Raymond Stewart Earl (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1941-January-07
Notre Dame Roman Catholic Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Accident Card - North American Harvard Mk.II serial:2598

This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1941-January-07. Harvard s/n 2598.

This accident involved 2 people. Dawson HN, Dority JR

Unit Desciption

2 SFTS (2 Service Flying Training School)

Graduates of the EFTS "learn-to-fly" program went on a Service Flying Training School (SFTS) for 16 weeks. For the first 8 weeks the trainee was part of an intermediate training squadron; for the next 6 weeks an advanced training squadron and for the final 2 weeks training was conducted at a Bombing & Gunnery School. The Service schools were military establishments run by the RCAF or the RAF.

There were two different types of Service Flying Training Schools. Trainees in the fighter pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 14 Aylmer, where they trained in the North American Harvard or North American Yale. Trainees in the bomber, coastal or transport pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 5 Brantford where they learned multi-engine technique in an Airspeed Oxford, Avro Anson or Cessna Crane.

RCAF Station Uplands now the site of Ottawa International Airport CYOW.

Instructors NO2 SFTS

For More Information on RCAF Station Uplands See here

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.info - RCAF Station Uplands Ottawa Ontario

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Carp Ontario

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Edwards Ontario

Museum Vintage Wings - Inside Uplands

Unvetted Source 2 SFTS Uplands History

Project 44 BCATP

Unvetted Source Project 44 BCATP

YouTube YouTube - Valour Canada Aerodrome of Democracy