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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

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."
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Fillmore, Stuart Reginald (Flight Lieutenant)

Killed in Action 1943-August-11

Flight Lieutenant Stuart Reginald Fillmore RCAF

Birth Date: 1919-March-11

Born:

Parents: Son of Roy Nixon Fillmore and Annie Grace Fillmore, of Salisbury, Westmorland Co., New Brunswick, Canada.

Spouse:

Home: Alma, Albert County, New Brunswick

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

218 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
In Time

Base

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/6386

Home

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Alma, Albert County, New Brunswick

Target

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Nuremberg Germany

Final Burial

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Durnbach War Cemetery
Plot 11 Row D Grave 3

218 Gold Coast Squadron (In Time). Stirling aircraft EE 885 took off on operations and was not heard from again. Six of the crew, not Canadians, missing believed killed. Cenotaph at Alma United Cemetery, Alma, Alberta County, New Brunswick, Canada

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Stirling EE885

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Edward Joseph Chalmers RCAF

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Chalmers, Edward Joseph (RCAF)

Prisoner of War
1943-August-11
cemetery unknown

Flight Lieutenant Stuart Reginald Fillmore RCAF

Flight Lieutenant Fillmore, Stuart Reginald (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-August-11
Durnbach War Cemetery, Gmund am Tegernsee, Germany