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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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Woodruff, Lionel Howard (Warrant Officer 2)

Killed in Action 1944-February-05

Warrant Officer 2 Lionel Howard Woodruff RCAF

Birth Date: 1923

Born:

Parents: Howard R. Woodruff & Ethel H. R. Woodruff

Spouse:

Home: Calgary, Alberta (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

196 (SD) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Sic Fidem Servamus Thus we keep faith

Base

RAF Hurns

Rank

Warrant Officer 2

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

R/149450

Home

Google Map

Calgary, Alberta (parents)

Target

Google Map

SOE parachute drop of supplies to the Resistence

Final Burial

Google Map

WW2 Commonwealth War Graves
Grave 3

Starting point and time of mission not found.

The crew of Stirling EF 469 were on an SOE mission when they crashed near Cornimont, France in the Vosges Region.

Killed includes Woodruff: Flying Officer John Rothwell Lindley RAF KIA Cornimont Communal Cemetery Grave 2. Flying Officer Thomas Moore RAF KIA Cornimont Communal Cemetery Grave 1.

POWs: Sergeant Joseph Francis Allen Bartlett RCAF R/195199 POW Stalag Luft L6 Heydekrug. Sergeant Alfred Joseph Cardiff RAF POW Stalag Luft L1 Barth Vogelsang. Sergeant Gordon Noel Hemmings RAF POW Stalag Luft L1 Barth Vogelsang. Flight Sergeant Bernard Horace Town RAF POW Stalag 357 Kopernikus.

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)

Crew or Other Personnel

Stirling EF469

Pilot Officer Joseph Francis Allen Bartlett RCAF

Pilot Officer Bartlett, Joseph Francis Allen (RCAF)

Prisoner of War
1944-February-05
cemetery unknown

Warrant Officer 2 Lionel Howard Woodruff RCAF

Warrant Officer 2 Woodruff, Lionel Howard (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer
Killed in Action
1944-February-05
WW2 Commonwealth War Graves, Cornimont, France