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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.
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RCAF Accident Cards (1939-1945) JA Griffin Documents 1968 and 2005 Obtaining a World War II Service File

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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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Cramm, Reginald Harrison (Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1943-June-23

Sergeant Reginald Harrison Cramm RAF

Birth Date: 1921

Born: Newfoundland

Parents: John & Mildred I Cramm, of Hamilton, Ontario

Spouse:

Home: St John's, Newfoundland

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAF

Unit

218 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
In Time

Base

RAF Downham Market

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Navigator

Service Numbers

798741

Home

St John's, Newfoundland

Memorial Location

Runnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 146

Stirling Mk III BF-572 HA-K failed to return from operations, shot down by night fighter. The Stirling crashed in the North Sea, 25 km west of Den Haag, Zuid-Holland.

Killed includes Cram: Flight Sergeant George Labiuk RCAF R/182511 KIA Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery, Plot 69. Row B. Coll. grave 11. Sergeant Wyndham Henry Davies RAF KIA Bergen-Op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery, Holland grave 1. H. 5. Sergeant Cederic Roland Minns RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 159. Sergeant Gilbert Ernest Rose RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 163. Flight Sergeant James Brooks Hamilton Smith RAAF KIA Castricum Protestant Churchyard, Holland Plot J. Coll. grave 5.

POW: Flight Sergeant P W Farr RAF Survived POW camp not listed.

addendum 2: See page 150. Sgt. Cramm was a navigator not an air gunner. Please see Labiuk, G. for crew list and flight detail. Detail provided by Mrs. R. Cramm, Hamilton, Ontario.

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