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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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Bradley, John William (Sergeant)

Prisoner of War 1944-June-01

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Birth Date: unkown date

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Service

RCAF

Unit

625 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
We Avenge

Base

RAF Kelsten

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

R/196176
PoW: 107

Target

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Tergnier France

Took off from Kelstern at 00:01 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: CF-G Bomber Command) on an operation to bomb railway yards in France.

Crashed Nullemont, Seine-Maritime France.

Killed: Pilot Officer Francis Samuel Brydon RCAF J/90923 KIA Poix-De-Picardie Churchyard Row C. Collective grave 6-8 France. Sergeant Norman Cobban Richmond RAF KIA Poix-De-Picardie Churchyard Row C. Coll. grave 6-8. Pilot Officer Charles Evan Raymond Tanner RAF pilot KIA Poix-De-Picardie Churchyard Row C. Coll. grave 6-8. Sergeant Guidleroy West RAF KIA Poix-De-Picardie Churchyard Row C. Coll. grave 6-8.

POWs includes Bradley: Sergeant Noel William Wray RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Flying Officer Thomas Rupert Hodgson RCAF J/23974 POW camp not listed.

Crew or Other Personnel

Lancaster LM427

Sergeant John William Bradley RCAF

Sergeant Bradley, John William (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Prisoner of War
1944-June-01
cemetery unknown

Pilot Officer Frances Samuel Brydon RCAF

Pilot Officer Brydon, Frances Samuel (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1944-June-01
Churchyard, Poix-De-Picardie, Somme, France

Flying Officer Thomas Rupert Hodgson RCAF

Flying Officer Hodgson, Thomas Rupert (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer
Prisoner of War
1944-June-01
cemetery unknown