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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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Millar, John Whitla (Flying Officer)

Killed in Action 1943-February-08

Flying Officer John Whitla Millar RCAF

Birth Date: 1915-January-04

Born: Edmonton, Alberta

Parents: William Anderson & Catherine Gracey (nee Whitla) Millar

Spouse:

Home: Edmonton, Alberta (parents)

Enlistment: Edmonton, Alberta

Enlistment Date: 1941-April-21

Service

RCAF

Unit

44 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Fulmina Regis Lusta The king's thunderbolts are righteous

Base

RAF Waddington

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/9415
Prev: R/93812

Home

Google Map

Edmonton, Alberta (parents)

Target

Google Map

Lorient France

Final Burial

Google Map

Lemvig Commonwealth Krigergrave
Panel 291

44 Rhodesia Squadron (Fulmina Regis lusta). Flying Officer Millar had been slightly injured on April 2, 1942 during a collision on the ground at 15 A.F.U. between Oxford aircraft V3322 and Oxford aircraft V 3952. Cenotaph at Edmonton Municipal Cemetery, Edmonton, Edmonton Census Division, Alberta, Canada Plot N 051 07 Cenotaph at Runnymede Memorial, Englefield Green, Runnymede Borough, Surrey, UK Addendum Panel 291

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

Lancaster ED309

Warrant Officer 2 Harry Gordon Black RCAF

Warrant Officer 2 Black, Harry Gordon (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-February-08
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Sergeant Alfred Leslie Bond RAF

Sergeant Bond, Alfred Leslie (RAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-February-08
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Leslie Harold Curtis RAF

Curtis, Leslie Harold (RAF)

Killed in Action
1943-February-08
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Robert William Drury RCAF

Sergeant Drury, Robert William (RCAF)
Flight Engineer
Killed in Action
1943-February-08
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flying Officer John Whitla Millar RCAF

Flying Officer Millar, John Whitla (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-February-08
Commonwealth Krigergrave Ydunslund, Lemvig, Denmark

Warrant Officer 2 Kenneth Mitchell Perkins RCAF

Warrant Officer 2 Perkins, Kenneth Mitchell (RCAF)
Observer
Killed in Action
1943-February-08
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flight Sergeant William Wilson Scrimgeour RCAF

Flight Sergeant Scrimgeour, William Wilson (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-February-08
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK