This Day In History
Canada's darkest days in Air War history are: July 29, March 31, and June 13
| Nationality | Name | War Status | Event Date | Aircraft | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Canada |
Albright, Robert Baker | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Halifax (W7769) | Woodstock, New Brunswick |
| Canada |
Anderson, Frank Edgar | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Hudson (V9052) | Kildonan, Manitoba |
 UK |
Apperson, Maxwell Warnock | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Halifax (W7769) | |
| Canada |
Aumell, Allan Daniel | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Lancaster (PB208) | Montreal, Quebec |
| UK |
Barker, William Eric | Killed in Flying Accident | 1942-07-24 | Finch (4445) | |
| Canada |
Barlow, Reginald Newman | Killed in Action | 1943-07-24 | Wellington (HF461) | Willowdale, Ontario |
| Canada |
Barr, Robert Benjamin | Prisoner of War | 1941-07-24 | Hampden (AE225) | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Canada |
Bedore, Glen Emerson | Killed in Action | 1945-07-24 | Seafire () | Arnprior, Ontario |
| Canada |
Bellingham, Adam Sidney | Killed in Action | 1943-07-24 | Wellington (HF461) | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Canada |
Bladon, James Stanley | Killed in Flying Accident | 1942-07-24 | Crane (8008) | Regina, Saskatchewan (parents) |
| Canada |
Blair, Timothy Clayton | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Lancaster (R5632) | Drake, Saskatchewan |
| UK |
Brown, Henry Ernest | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Wellington (Z1577) | Bramber, Sussex, England |
 USA |
Burks, Lionel Lodowick | Killed in Flying Accident | 1942-07-24 | Finch (4445) | Bluefield, Virginia, USA |
| Canada |
Cabush, Gordon Harold | Killed in Flying Accident | 1942-07-24 | Crane (8008) | Edmonton, Alberta (parent) |
| Canada |
Cash, Frederick Alfred | Killed in Flying Accident | 1918-07-24 | Pup (9946) | Hamilton, Ontario |
| Canada |
Chiasson, John Charles | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Lancaster (R5632) | Passchendaele, Nova Scotia |
| Canada |
Cole, Richard Martyn | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Mitchell (FW210) | Hamilton, Ontario |
| UK |
Colloton, William | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Halifax (W7769) | Birkenhead, England (parents) |
| Canada |
Coulson, Robert Frederick | Killed in Action | 1943-07-24 | Wellington (HF461) | Winnipeg, Manitoba (parents) |
| Canada |
Crump, John Colvin | Killed in Action | 1941-07-24 | Wellington (W5537) | Regina, Saskatchewan |
| Canada |
Dalphond, Melville Hermes Joseph | Prisoner of War Escaper | 1941-07-24 | Wellington (W5551) | Edmonton, Edmonton Census Division, Alberta, Canada |
| Canada |
Davies, Garnett Arthur | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| UK |
Davies, Roy Joseph | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Lancaster (LM174) | Leicester, Leicestershire, England (parents) |
| USA |
Davison, Frederick George | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Hurricane (BP120) | Regina, Saskatchewan. |
| Canada |
Devlin, Emmett Ernest F | Killed in Flying Accident | 1939-07-24 | Fawn (219) | |
| Canada |
Dewey, Kenneth Welland | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Lancaster (LM174) | Stratford, Ontario (parents) |
| Canada |
Dittmer, Donald Franklin | Killed in Flying Accident | 1944-07-24 | Halifax (JD372) | Toronto, Ontario (parents) |
| Canada |
Drouillard, Roy Henry | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Galiano Island, British Columbia |
| Canada |
Duclos, Joseph Jean | Killed in Flying Accident | 1943-07-24 | Halifax (BB285) | Montreal, Quebec |
| Canada |
Fairbairn, Allyn Rupert 'Allan' | Survived | 1917-07-24 | () | Brockville, Leeds, Ontario |
| Canada |
Fleming, John Brown | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Stirling (W7567) | Mount Dennis, Ontario |
| Canada |
Gilchrist, Peter Alexander | Evader | 1941-07-24 | Wellington (W5551) | Port Pelly, Saskatchewan |
| Canada |
Glover, Charles Gordon | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| USA |
Goldman, Arthur Jacob | Killed in Flying Accident | 1944-07-24 | Spitfire (BM113) | St Louis, Mississippi, USA |
| Canada |
Grant, James Murray | Killed in Action | 1941-07-24 | Hampden (AD962) | Woodstock, Ontario |
| Canada |
Green, Frank Harold | Killed in Flying Accident | 1944-07-24 | Halifax (JD372) | Calgary, Alberta (parents) |
| Canada |
Green, Gordon Arnold | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Mitchell (FW210) | New Glasgow, Pictou County, Nova Scotia |
| Canada |
Greenlay, Wallace Brian | Killed in Flying Accident | 1943-07-24 | Lysander (2368) | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| UK |
Harrison, Hugh Raymond | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Lancaster (LM174) | Marino, County Down, Northern Ireland |
| Canada |
Harrison, Stewart | Killed in Action | 1943-07-24 | Wellington (HF461) | North Battleford, Saskatchewan |
| Canada |
Hartrick, Norman Angus | Killed in Flying Accident | 1944-07-24 | Mitchell (FV986) | Dunvegan, Ontario |
| Canada |
Hearfield, Jack Douglas | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Canada |
Henderson, David Gordon | Killed in Flying Accident | 1942-07-24 | Oxford (DF293) | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Canada |
Hexter, Robert William | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Halifax (W7769) | London, Ontario |
| Canada |
Hignell, Gordon Kirby | Killed in Action | 1943-07-24 | Typhoon (JP426) | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Canada |
Hopping, Arthur Stanley | Killed in Action | 1943-07-24 | Wellington (HF461) | Deseronto, Ontario |
| Canada |
Jacobsen, William Lloyd | Prisoner of War | 1941-07-24 | Wellington (R1726) | |
| UK |
Jefferies, Norman | Prisoner of War | 1942-07-24 | Wellington (Z1577) | |
| Canada |
Kennedy, Edward Richard | Killed in Flying Accident | 1941-07-24 | Wellington (T2458) | Westmount, Quebec |
| Canada |
Kennedy, John Richard | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Wellington (HX489) | Monte Lake, British Columbia |
| Canada |
La Salle, Joseph Daniel Leo | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Lancaster (R5867) | Holtyre, Ontario |
| Canada |
Leake, Eric Gilbert | Killed in Action | 1918-07-24 | R.E.8 () | Hale, Altrincham, Cheshire, England (parents) |
| Canada |
Lewthwaite, George Alexander | Killed in Flying Accident | 1944-07-24 | Halifax (JD372) | Outremont, Quebec |
| UK |
Livingstone, Ian | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Halifax (JD372) | Oban, Scotland |
| Canada |
Lowing, William Allan | Killed | 1942-07-24 | Beaufort (AW355) | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Canada |
Ludlow, John Murray | Killed in Flying Accident | 1944-07-24 | Halifax (JD372) | Toronto, Ontario (parents) |
| Canada |
Mack, Frederick Charles | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | McElhanney, Saskatchewan |
| Canada |
MacKay, William Minto | Prisoner of War Early Release | 1941-07-24 | Wellington (W5551) | Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada |
| Canada |
Macmillan, James Forrest | Killed in Flying Accident | 1941-07-24 | Wellington (T2458) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Canada |
MacNeill, William Murray | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Sydney, Nova Scotia |
| Canada |
Martin, Julian Lee Byron | Killed in Action | 1941-07-24 | Wellington (W5537) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Canada |
May, Theodore Charles | Killed in Action | 1917-07-24 | Triplane (N5364) | Toronto, Ontario |
| Canada |
McCabe, Edward James | Killed in Flying Accident | 1945-07-24 | Mustang (KH569) | Toronto, Ontario |
| Canada |
McCormick, John Gibney | Killed in Action | 1943-07-24 | Wellington (MP514) | Flin Flon, Manitoba |
| Canada |
McFadyen, Gilbert Campbell | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Sarnia, Ontario |
| UK |
Mills, William Henry James | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Mitchell (FW210) | |
| Canada |
Mitchell, William Ernest | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Canada |
Moffat, Archibald Douglas | Killed in Flying Accident | 1944-07-24 | Halifax (JD372) | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Canada |
Morfoot, Lorne Albert | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Lancaster (LM174) | Beausejour, Manitoba (parents) |
| UK |
Newell, Alfred James | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Lancaster (LM174) | Cardonald, Renfrewshire, Scotland (parents) |
| Canada |
Oakenfold, Harold Frederick | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Calgary, Alberta |
| Canada |
Olsen, Philip Eric | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Canada |
Onuski, Maurice Daniel | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Coniston, Ontario |
| Canada |
Owen, William | Killed in Action | 1941-07-24 | Wellington (N2854) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Canada |
Owens, Thomas Reid | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Halifax (W7769) | Westmount, Quebec |
| Canada |
Paton, John Shedden | Evader | 1941-07-24 | Wellington (W5551) | |
| Canada |
Pattyson, Leonard William | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Mitchell (FW210) | Regina, Saskatchewan |
| Canada |
Peters, Roy Donald | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Wellington (BJ673) | Herbert, Saskatchewan |
| Canada |
Polec, Tadeusz Ludwig | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| UK |
Powell, Frank Alfred | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Lancaster (LM174) | West Ham, Essex, England |
| Canada |
Radcliffe, Edward Ernest | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Lancaster (ND931) | Penticton, British Columbia |
| Canada |
Ratcliff, Alfred Frank Chilvers | Prisoner of War KIA | 1942-07-24 | Wellington (Z1577) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Canada |
Raymond, George Vail | Killed in Flying Accident | 1918-07-24 | Camel (F6156) | Vancouver, B.C. |
| USA |
Rember, Raymond Alexander | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Lancaster (ND931) | Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| Canada |
Reynolds, Albert Chalmers | Killed in Flying Accident | 1944-07-24 | Halifax (JD372) | Toronto, Ontario (parents) |
 Canada |
Saul, Robert Jardine | unknown | 1967-07-24 | () | |
| Canada |
Schultz, Elmer Joseph | Killed in Flying Accident | 1943-07-24 | Lysander (2368) | Hubbard, Saskatchewan |
| Canada |
Sherlock, Clarence James | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Canada |
Slater, Jonathan Charles | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Sidney, British Columbia |
| Canada |
Smalley, Ronald Whitehead | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Lancaster (ND931) | Toronto, Ontario |
| Canada |
Smith, George Burton | Prisoner of War | 1942-07-24 | Wellington (Z1577) | |
| Canada |
Smith, Harold Alexander | Killed in Action | 1944-07-24 | Lancaster (LM174) | Fredericton, New Brunswick (parents) |
| Canada |
Stead, George Thornton | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Biggar, Saskatchewan |
| Canada |
Strong, George Frederick | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Halifax (W7769) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Canada |
Sutcliffe, Carman Fletcher | Killed in Flying Accident | 1941-07-24 | Wellington (T2458) | Georgetown, Ontario |
| Canada |
Thurlow, William Charles | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Halifax (W7769) | Kitchener, Ontario |
| Canada |
Vollhoffer, Titus | Killed | 1943-07-24 | Ship (BCStar) | Southey, Saskatchewan |
| Canada |
Waddell, John Burrows | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Hurricane (BN358) | Beausejour, Manitoba |
| Canada |
Waller, B H | Died | 1942-07-24 | () | |
| Canada |
Webster, Paul Osborne | Killed in Action | 1942-07-24 | Beaufighter (X8088) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
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