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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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Armstrong, John Archibald (Flight Sergeant)

Prisoner of War 1943-November-26

Male Head

Birth Date: unkown date

Born:

Parents:

Spouse:

Home: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

57 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Corpus Non Animum Muto I change my body, not my spirit

Base

RAF East Kirkby

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

R/130481
PoW: 263644

Home

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Winnipeg, Manitoba

Target

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Berlin Germany

Took off from East Kirkby at 17:25 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: DX-L Bomber Command) on an operation to Berlin Germany.

Shot down by a night fighter and crashed near Bookholzberg-Neuenlande some 8 km NW of Delmenhorst.

Killed: Pilot Officer Harold Beane RAF KIA Sage War Cemetery grave 1. D. 1. Germany

Sergeant Walter Dwyer RAF KIA Sage War Cemetery Collective grave 1. D. 2-4. Sergeant James MacKay RAF KIA Sage War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. D. 2-4. Flying Officer David Leslie Pickard RCAF J/15641 KIA Sage War Cemetery grave 1. D. 5. Sergeant Lawrence Arthur Williamson RAF KIA Sage War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. D. 2-4.

POWs including Armstrong: Sergeant Bernard Nelson Deas RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria.

Crew or Other Personnel

Lancaster JB485

Flight Sergeant John Archibald Armstrong RCAF

Flight Sergeant Armstrong, John Archibald (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer
Prisoner of War
1943-November-26
cemetery unknown

Flying Officer David Leslie Pickard RCAF

Flying Officer Pickard, David Leslie (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-November-26
Sage War Cemetery, Oldenburg, Land Niedersachsen, Germany