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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.
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Andrew Mynarski, VC

We Shall Remember Them.
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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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McGuire, Edward Voliantine (Sergeant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1942-April-21

Sergeant Edward Voliantine McGuire RCAF

Birth Date: 1915

Born:

Parents: Son of Leo C. and Anna I. McGuire, of Toronto, Ontario Canada.

Spouse:

Home: Toronto, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

20 EFTS- Elementary Flying Training School

Base

Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

R/95628

Home

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Toronto, Ontario

Final Burial

Google Map

St John's Cemetery
Plot 56A

20 Elementary Flying Training School, Oshawa, Ontario. Sergeant McGuire and J.C. Hammond were engaged in mutual instrument practise and were killed when Tiger Moth aircraft 5158 struck a fence and crashed in a ditch seventeen miles north of the aerodrome at Oshawa. Sergeant

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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

Crew or Other Personnel

Tiger Moth 5168

Sergeant John Clifford Hammond RCAF

Sergeant Hammond, John Clifford (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-April-21
Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sergeant Edward Voliantine McGuire RCAF

Sergeant McGuire, Edward Voliantine (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-April-21
St John's Cemetery, Fenton, Michigan, USA

Accident Card - de Havilland Moth, Tiger I serial:5168

This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1942-April-21. Tiger Moth s/n 5168.

This accident involved 2 people. Hammond JC, Mcguire EV

This accident had 2 fatalities. Sergeant John Clifford Hammond RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/79226 Moth, Tiger 5168, Sergeant Edward Voliantine McGuire RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/95628 Moth, Tiger 5168

Unit Desciption

20 EFTS (20 Elementary Flying Training School)

An Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) gave a trainee 50 hours of basic flying instruction on a simple trainer like the De Havilland Tiger Moth, Fleet Finch, or Fairchild Cornell over 8 weeks.Elementary schools were operated by civilian flying clubs under contract to the RCAF and most of the instructors were civilians. For example, No. 12 EFTS Goderich was run by the Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Club and the County of Huron Flying Club.The next step for a pilot was the Service Flying Training School.

NO20 EFTS Oshawa

More Information on RCAF StationOshawa can be found here

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.info - RCAF Station Oshawa Ontario

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Whitby Ontario

Unvetted Source City Of Oshawa - Former BCATP Buildings restored

Project 44 BCATP

Unvetted Source Project 44 BCATP

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