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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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Capreol, Edward Louis (Flight Sergeant)

Prisoner of War 1943-November-26

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Service

RCAF

Unit

76 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Resolute

Base

RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

R/150348
PoW: 263569

Target

Google Map

Stuttgart Germany

Took off from Holme on Spalding Moor at 16:51 in Halifax Mark V (Sqn code: MP-F Bomber Command) on an operation to Stuttgart Germany.

Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed at Malborn Germany near Cologne.

Killed: Flight Sergeant Evan James Berndt RCAF R/182015 KIA Cologne Southern Cemetery Plot 4. Row AA. Grave 15.

POWs includes Capreol: Flying Officer Norman Wilan Mann RCAF J/21442 POW Stalag Luft L1 Barth Vogelsang. Sergeant Peter Drummond RAF POW Stalag 4B Muhlberg (Elbe). Sergeant Alan Cedric Fuller RAF POW Stalag 4C Wistritz bei Teplitz. Sergeant John Hodgson RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Sergeant Frank Jackson Winterbottom RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria.

Crew or Other Personnel

Halifax LK946

Flight Sergeant Evan James Berndt RCAF

Flight Sergeant Berndt, Evan James (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-November-26
Cologne South Cemetery, Cologne, Germany

Flight Sergeant Edward Louis Capreol RCAF

Flight Sergeant Capreol, Edward Louis (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer
Prisoner of War
1943-November-26
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Peter Drummond RAF

Sergeant Drummond, Peter (RAF)

Prisoner of War
1943-November-26
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Alan Cedric Fuller RAF

Sergeant Fuller, Alan Cedric (RAF)

Prisoner of War
1943-November-26
cemetery unknown

Sergeant John Hodgson RAF

Sergeant Hodgson, John (RAF)

Prisoner of War
1943-November-26
cemetery unknown

Flt. Lieutenant Norman Willan Mann RCAF

Flt. Lieutenant Mann, Norman Willan (RCAF)

Prisoner of War
1943-November-26
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Frank Jackson Winterbottom RAF

Sergeant Winterbottom, Frank Jackson (RAF)

Prisoner of War
1943-November-26
cemetery unknown