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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

Start Here Glossary Canada and World War II Combatants & First Airmen Casualties Air Force Operations Battle of Britain Women in War War Artists

"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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Thompson, Alan Beach

Died 1941-08-11

Male Head

Birth Date: 1920

Born:

Son of Mrs. F. Thompson, of South Shields, Co. Durham, England.

Home:

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RAF

Unit

32 EFTS- Elementary Flying Training School (RAF)

Base

Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada

Rank

Aircraftman 1st Class

Position

Aircraftman 1st Class

Service Numbers

634639

First Burial

Google Map

Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Swift Current, Saskatchewan

Accidently shot by a gun in his own hand (ancestry.ca))

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

32 EFTS (32 Elementary Flying Training School)

An Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) gave a trainee 50 hours of basic flying instruction on a simple trainer like the De Havilland Tiger Moth, Fleet Finch, or Fairchild Cornell over 8 weeks.Elementary schools were operated by civilian flying clubs under contract to the RCAF and most of the instructors were civilians. For example, No. 12 EFTS Goderich was run by the Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Club and the County of Huron Flying Club.The next step for a pilot was the Service Flying Training School.

For more Information on RCAF Station Bowden see here

Canada Primary Source RCAF.info - RCAF Station Bowden AB

Canada Primary Source RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Netook AB

Museum Bomber Command Museum of Canada

Museum Vintage Wings - Ghosts of Southern Alberta

Project 44 BCATP

General Project 44 BCATP

YouTube YouTube - Valour Canada Aerodrome of Democracy