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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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Bartlett, Richard Edward

Prisoner of War 1940-06-13

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Birth Date: 1919-April-21

Born:

Son of Christopher Pennycuick and Dora Margaret (nee Smales) Bartlett, of Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. Brother of W/C CS Bartlett (RAFVR)

Home: Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RN FAA

Unit

803 Sqn- Squadron (FAA)

Base

HMS Ark Royal

Rank

Lt Commander

Position

Sub Lieutenant

Service Numbers

PoW: 92

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Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan

Took off in Skua #2955

Shot down after dive bombing attack on the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau

Sub Lt (A) R E Bartlett (RNFAA) and TAG L G Richards (RNFAA) force landed in Trondheimsfjord, Norway 13 June 1940. Taken Prisoner of War by the Germans 31 August 1940

German POW at Stalag XXA underground fort at Torun, Poland 1945. Liberated May 1945

Lt(A) Bartlett was BROTHER of W/C C S Bartlett (RAFVR)(Can), killed in action 1944-06-13 on 434 Squadron Halifax LW 173 WL-K during an operation over Arras, France

Canada's Naval Aviators by John MacFarlane and Robbie Hughes pages 8-9

General Black Thursday - a disasterous Fleet Air Arm raid I Naval Air History

Skua 2955

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Lt Commander Bartlett, Richard Edward (RN FAA)
Pilot
Prisoner of War
1940-June-13
cemetery unknown

Blackburn Skua