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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

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."
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Carter, Albert Desbrisay

Prisoner of War 1919-05-22

Birth Date: unkown date

Born: Pointe de Butte, New Brunswick

Leonard & Ettie Goodwin-Carter

Home: Pointe de Butte, New Brunswick.

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Decorations: DSO & Bar, MiD(3), CDGB

Distinguished Service Order Bar

Mentioned in Dispatches

Service

RAF

Unit

123 (F) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Swift To Strike

Base

France

Rank

Major

Position

Major

Service Numbers

Home

Google Map

Pointe de Butte, New Brunswick.

First Burial

Google Map

Old Shoreham Cemetery, Old Shoreham, Sussex, Uk

A professional soldier, he was commissioned in March 1911. In the infantry he had risen to the rank of Major when he was wounded. On recovery he transferred to the RAF. After flight training he was posted to 19 Squadron in the summer of 1917 and to 123 Sqn (all Canadian) at the end of the war. He was killed in 1919 in a flying accident when a Fokker DVII he was testing broke up in the air. He shot down 28 enemy aircraft.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial