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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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Loyns, Ronald Harvey (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1942-August-19

Flight Sergeant Ronald Harvey Loyns RCAF

Birth Date: 1922-March-26

Born: Saskatoon, Saskatoon Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada

Parents: Son of Irwin Nelson Loyns and Rena Maude Blanche (nee Johnston) Loyns, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Spouse:

Home: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Enlistment: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Enlistment Date: 1940-September-11

Service

RCAF

Unit

66 (F) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Cavete Praemonui Beware, I have warned

Base

RAF Tangmere

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

R/62462

Home

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Target

Dieppe France

Memorial Location

Runnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 105

66 Squadron (Cavete Praemonui) RAF Tangmere. Flight Sergeant Ronald Harvey Loyns (RCAF) was missing, presumed killed in action when his Spitfire Vc aircraft AB 517 was shot down at sea by a German Focke-Wulf 190, ten miles west of Dieppe, France while escorting Boston bomber aircraft returning from an operation. Flight Sergeant Loyns body was not recovered and he has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

There were over 100 Allied aircraft lost on this date.

The Greatest Air Battle, Dieppe, 19th August 1942, pages 154, 230

,span class="citation">Spitfire Mark V in Action, RAF Operations in Northern Europe by Peter Caygill, page 113

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