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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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Penn, William Harvey (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1942-December-17

Flight Sergeant William Harvey Penn RCAF

Birth Date: 1922

Born:

Parents:

Spouse:

Home: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

9 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Noctem Volamus Through out the night we fly

Base

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

R/131821

Home

Google Map

Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Final Burial

Google Map

Sage War Cemetery
1 B 2

9 Squadron (Per Noctem Volamus). Lancaster aircraft ED 349 missing over enemy territory crashed at Bekhausen Rastede Niedersachsen Germany.

Killed: Flight Sergeant William Harvey Penn RCAF R/131821 (American) KIA Sage War Cemetery Plot 1 Row B Grave 2.

POWs: Sergeant John Wilson RCAF R/89650 pilot POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. Sergeant Elliot Richmond Aldridge RAAF POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. Sergeant Leslie Britton Holmes RAF POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. Sergeant John Richard Lord RAF POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. Sergeant Alexander Stoddart McKinley RAF POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. Sergeant Albert Willis RAF POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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

Crew or Other Personnel

Lancaster ED349

Sergeant Elliot Richmond Aldridge RAAF

Sergeant Aldridge, Elliot Richmond (RAAF)

Prisoner of War
1942-December-17
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Leslie Britton Holmes RAF

Sergeant Holmes, Leslie Britton (RAF)

Prisoner of War
1942-December-17
cemetery unknown

Sergeant John Richard Lord RAF

Sergeant Lord, John Richard (RAF)

Prisoner of War
1942-December-17
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Alexander Stoddart MacKinley RAF

Sergeant MacKinley, Alexander Stoddart (RAF)

Prisoner of War
1942-December-17
cemetery unknown

Flight Sergeant William Harvey Penn RCAF

Flight Sergeant Penn, William Harvey (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1942-December-17
Sage War Cemetery, Oldenburg, Land Niedersachsen, Germany

Sergeant Albert Willis RAF

Sergeant Willis, Albert (RAF)

Prisoner of War
1942-December-17
cemetery unknown

Warrant Officer 1 John Wilson RCAF

Warrant Officer 1 Wilson, John (RCAF)
pilot
Prisoner of War
1942-December-17
cemetery unknown