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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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Murphy, Myles Alphonsus (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1944-July-29

Male Head

Birth Date: 1922-April-14

Born:

Parents: Gertrude Ellen Murphy & the late John Benjamin Murphy

Spouse:

Home: Bell Island, Newfoundland (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAF

Unit

570 (SD) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Impetum deducimus We launch the spearhead

Base

RAF Hurn

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Flight Engineer

Service Numbers

798722

Home

Bell Island, Newfoundland (parents)

Target

SOE drop Dijon France

Final Burial

Grand Cimetiere d'Orleans
Plot 2 Row A Coll grave 14-16

570 Squadron. Aircraft LK133 was shot down by flak while on a Special Duties flight, and crashed at St-Jean, Orleans, France.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Crew or Other Personnel

Stirling LK133

Flying Officer Dallas Eugene Belt RCAF

Flying Officer Belt, Dallas Eugene (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer
Killed in Action
1944-July-29
Grand Cimetiere d'Orleans, Boulevard Lamartine, Orleans, France

Warrant Officer Linton Arthur Sidney Hambrooke RCAF

Warrant Officer Hambrooke, Linton Arthur Sidney (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-July-29
Grand Cimetiere d'Orleans, Boulevard Lamartine, Orleans, France

Sergeant Leslie Hodgson RAF

Sergeant Hodgson, Leslie (RAF)
W/Op-AG
Killed in Action
1944-July-29
cemetery unknown

Flight Sergeant Myles Alphonsus Murphy RAF

Flight Sergeant Murphy, Myles Alphonsus (RAF)
Flight Engineer
Killed in Action
1944-July-29
Grand Cimetiere d'Orleans, Boulevard Lamartine, Orleans, France

Flying Officer Arthur Walter William Nipper RAF

Flying Officer Nipper, Arthur Walter William (RAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1944-July-29
cemetery unknown

Flying Officer Douglas Robson RAF

Flying Officer Robson, Douglas (RAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1944-July-29
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Stanley William Thompson RAF

Sergeant Thompson, Stanley William (RAF)
Flt. Engineer
Killed in Action
1944-July-29
cemetery unknown

CASPIR Resources

External Resources

Education & History

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