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

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."
Contact

Castle, John Gordon (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1943-August-24

Pilot Officer John Gordon Castle RCAF

Birth Date: 1917

Born:

Parents: George H. Castle & Eleanor M. Castle

Spouse:

Home: Toronto, Ontario (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

78 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Nemo Non Paratus Nobody unprepared

Base

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

J/17643
Prev: R/80601

Home

Toronto, Ontario (parents)

Target

Berlin Germany

Final Burial

Berlin War Cemetery
Plot 5 Row A Grave 12

Took off from Breighton at 20:23 in Halifax Mk II (Sqn code EY-Z Bomber Command) on an operation to Berlin Germany.

Shot down at Klosterfelde 30 km North-North-East from the centre of Berlin.

Killed includes Castle: Warrant Officer Class 2 Leslie Allan Mallory RCAF R/94772 KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 5. A. 13. Squadron Leader Peter Bunclark RAF pilot KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 5. A. 11. Pilot Officer Kenneth Thomas Dixon RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 5. A. 9. Pilot Officer Ernest Frederick Charles Matthews RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 5. A. 8. Pilot Officer James Stirling Moore RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 5. A. 10.

POW: Pilot Officer Victor Arthur Robins RCAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial