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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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Stanzel, Ross Samuel (Flying Officer)

Killed in Action 1945-February-14

Flying Officer Ross Samuel Stanzel RCAF

Birth Date: 1924-April-24

Born: Ottawa, Ontario

Parents: Son of Oscar Milburn and Ethel Sarah Jane (nee Saunders) Stanzel, of Ottawa, Ontario. Brother of Ruth Olivia.

Spouse:

Home: Ottawa, Ontario

Enlistment: Ottawa, Ontario

Enlistment Date: 1942-October-29

Service

RCAF

Unit

153 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Noctividus We see by night

Base

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

J/42702
Prev: R/204185

Home

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Ottawa, Ontario

Target

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Chemnitz Germany

Memorial Location

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Runnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 280

153 Squadron (Noctividus). Lancaster aircraft NN 803 missing from a night trip to Chemnitz, Germany. Flying Officer L.A. MacDonald, FS C.J. Caryi, Warrant Officer J.H. Wilson, and Flight Lieutenant C.R. Mills were also killed. Two of the crew, not Canadians, missing believed killed.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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

Crew or Other Personnel

Lancaster NN803

Flight Sergeant Charles Joseph Anthony Caryi RCAF

Flight Sergeant Caryi, Charles Joseph Anthony (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-February-14
Berlin War Cemetery, Charlottenburg, Germany

Flying Officer Lorne Albert MacDonald RCAF

Flying Officer MacDonald, Lorne Albert (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1945-February-14
Berlin War Cemetery, Charlottenburg, Germany

Flight Lieutenant Clement Robert Mills RCAF

Flight Lieutenant Mills, Clement Robert (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1945-February-14
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flying Officer Ross Samuel Stanzel RCAF

Flying Officer Stanzel, Ross Samuel (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer
Killed in Action
1945-February-14
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Warrant Officer 1 John Howard Wilson RCAF

Warrant Officer 1 Wilson, John Howard (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-February-14
Berlin War Cemetery, Charlottenburg, Germany