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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."
Contact

Giffin, John Winslow Alexander (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1942-February-16

Flight Sergeant John Winslow Alexander Giffin RCAF

Birth Date: 1922

Born:

Parents: Son of Alexander A. Giffin and Emily E. Giffin, of Osborne Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Spouse:

Home: Osborne Harbor, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

77 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Esse Potius Quam Videri To be, rather than to seem

Base

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Wireless Air Gunner

Service Numbers

R/76036

Home

Google Map

Osborne Harbor, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

Final Burial

Google Map

Stratford-On-Avon Cemetery
Grave 4018

77 Squadron (Esse Potius Quam Videri). Whitley aircraft crashed.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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

Crew or Other Personnel

Whitley Z9229

Flight Sergeant William Paterson Connell RCAF

Flight Sergeant Connell, William Paterson (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1942-February-16
Stratford-On-Avon Cemetery, Evesham Road, Warwickshire, UK

Flight Sergeant John Winslow Alexander Giffin RCAF

Flight Sergeant Giffin, John Winslow Alexander (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1942-February-16
Stratford-On-Avon Cemetery, Evesham Road, Warwickshire, UK