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Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg

John Griffin was a significant historian, documenting Canada's Military aircraft.
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Lancaster FM213

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

We Shall Remember Them.
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"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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Cleary, Henry Joseph (Flight Lieutenant)

Killed in Action 1944-July-08

Flight Lieutenant Henry Joseph Cleary RCAF

Birth Date: 1919-June-03

Born: Cornwall Ontario

Parents: Edward J. & Mary Boulger Cleary

Spouse:

Home: Cornwall, Ontario (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

602 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Cave Leonem Cruciatum Beware the tormented lion

Base

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/5038

Home

Cornwall, Ontario (parents)

Temporary Burial

St Clair, France, Near Area He Was Killed

Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied

Final Burial

Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery
grave XIX F 3

F/Lt H J Cleary (RCAF) was the pilot of Spitfire Mk IX MH-512 LO-Q, engaged in a daylight reconnaissance on 1944-07-01 over the Argentan area of France when he reported by r/t that his aircraft had been hit by flak from the German motor transport column he had attacked. His Spitfire was last seen as it disappeared into cloud, flying north and it crashed thirty miles south-east of Caen at Fontaine-Les-Bassets, France.

Flight Lieutenant Cleary had baled out and was an Evader, managing to find and join up with some other allied Evaders in the same predicament, but they were all killed in a gun battle with German troops on July 8, 1944. Flight Lieutenant Pilot Cleary was buried at St Clair, France, exhumed, and reburied in the Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, France.

Detail from: https://aircrewremembered.com/cleary-henry-joseph.html

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