About

CASPIR Data Archive Mission & Data Sources Significant Canadian Historians Our Team RCAF Assistance CASPIR Volunteering

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

Start Here Glossary Canada and World War II Combatants & First Airmen Casualties Air Force Operations Battle of Britain Women in War War Artists

"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."
Contact

Irwin, Vern Selby (Warrant Officer 2nd Class)

Killed in Action 1942-October-22

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Vern Selby Irwin RCAF

Birth Date: 1911-July-30

Born:

Home: Galt, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

267 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)

Base

Rank

Warrant Officer 2nd Class

Position

Warrant Officer 2nd Class

Service Numbers

R/77313

Home

Google Map

Galt, Ontario

Memorial Location

Google Map

World War 2 Memorial
2 C 28

267 Squadron. WO.s Irwin, W.H. Plant, and eleven of the crew, not Canadians, were all killed when their Lodestar aircraft crashed at Bilbeis East.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Lodestar EW984

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Vern Selby Irwin RCAF

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Irwin, Vern Selby (RCAF)
Observer
Killed in Action
1942-October-22
World War 2 Memorial, Asmaa Fahmi, Al Golf, Nasr City, Egypt

Warrant Officer 1st Class Walter Henry Plant RCAF

Warrant Officer 1st Class Plant, Walter Henry (RCAF)
Observer
Killed in Action
1942-October-22
World War 2 Memorial, Asmaa Fahmi, Al Golf, Nasr City, Egypt

Lodestar serial: EW984

(RCAF Photo via the Shearwater Aviation Museum)
Lockheed Lodestar, RCAF (Serial No. 567).
Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page

The Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar is a passenger transport aircraft of the World War II era. Wikipedia

YouTube Lodestar Transport

Wikipedia Lodestar Transport

unvetted Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page

Lodestar - Kestrel Publications