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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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Van Allen, Kenneth Marsden (Flight Sub-Lieutenant)

Prisoner of War Died 1916-May-04

Flight Sub-Lieutenant Kenneth Marsden Van Allen RNAS

Birth Date: 1889

Born: Brantford, Ontario

Parents: Letitia P. van Allen & the late Edmund Walker Head Van Allen

Spouse: unmarried

Home: Chatham, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: 1915-May

Service

RNAS

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Rank

Flight Sub-Lieutenant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

Home

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Chatham, Ontario

Temporary Burial

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Westuine Churchyard, Belgium

Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied

Final Burial

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Ingoyghem Military Cemetery
German Plot Row E Grave 17

Shot down by a German aircraft. **L.S.** Van Allen was shot down in his Caudron aircraft during a bombing raid on the Mariakerk Aerodrome in Belgium. He was captured by Germans troops and made a prisoner of war, but died a week later of the injuries sustained in the air battle and crash. At the conclusion of the war, Van Allen's mother Letitia donated money to build the west wing of the Summerland Hospital as a memorial to her son. Cenotaph at Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Chatham-Kent Municipality, Ontario, Canada Plot - Ward H Cenotaph lists death as 1916-05-11

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com