Joseph Aldege Phaneuf

Killed in Flying Accident 1942-September-04

Leading Aircraftman Joseph Aldege Phaneuf RCAF

Birth Date: 1914

Born:

Parents: Son of Josephat and Rose Alma Phaneuf, of Montreal; husband of Cecile B. Phaneuf, of Verdun.

Spouse: Husband of Cecile B. Phaneuf, of Verdun.

Home: Montreal, Quebec

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

13 SFTS- Service Flying Training School

Base

St Hubert, Quebec, Canada

Rank

Leading Aircraftman

Position

Service Numbers

R/54699

Home

Montreal, Quebec

Final Burial

Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery
Sec M Lot 3410 Grave 4092

13 Service Flying Training School, St Hubert, Quebec. Leading Aircraftman Phaneuf had just walked down and relit 3 flare and moved off the runway when a Harvard aircraft 2757 landed. The landing aircraft swerved off the runway and struck and killed him.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

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

Accident Card - North American Harvard Mk.II / IIA serial:2757

This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1942-September-04. Harvard II s/n 2757.

This accident involved 3 people. Driscoll PT, Phaneuf JA, Smith MAG

This accident had 1 fatality. Leading Aircraftman Joseph Aldege Phaneuf RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/54699 Harvard 2757

Unit Desciption

13 SFTS (13 Service Flying Training School)

Graduates of the EFTS "learn-to-fly" program went on a Service Flying Training School (SFTS) for 16 weeks. For the first 8 weeks the trainee was part of an intermediate training squadron; for the next 6 weeks an advanced training squadron and for the final 2 weeks training was conducted at a Bombing & Gunnery School. The Service schools were military establishments run by the RCAF or the RAF.

There were two different types of Service Flying Training Schools. Trainees in the fighter pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 14 Aylmer, where they trained in the North American Harvard or North American Yale. Trainees in the bomber, coastal or transport pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 5 Brantford where they learned multi-engine technique in an Airspeed Oxford, Avro Anson or Cessna Crane.