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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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O'Farrell, Joseph Edmund Edmund (Sergeant)

Prisoner of War 1944-August-27

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Service

RCAF

Unit

576 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Carpe Diem Seize the opportunity

Base

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Service Numbers

R/178953
PoW: 716

Target

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Kiel Germany

Took off from Elsham Wolds at 19:19 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: UL-J2 Bomber Command) on a bombing operation to Kiel Germany.

Shot down y night fighter and crashed in the lake near Borgwedel.

Killed: Flying Officer Jack Allan Linklater RCAF (/86650 pilot KIA Kiel War Cemetery grave 1. D. 21. Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson RCAF R/171883 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 255.

POWs: Sergeant Edwin Houghton Farrington RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Pilot Officer Russell Earl Rogers RCAF J/85312 POW camp not listed. W/O2 Keith Tate RCAF R/124433 POW camp not listed. Flying Officer Kenneth Milton Tucker RCAF J/29710 POW camp not listed. Sergeant Joseph Edmund Edwin O'Farrell RCAF R/178953 POW camp not listed.

Crew or Other Personnel

Lancaster PB400

Flying Officer Jack Allan Linklater RCAF

Flying Officer Linklater, Jack Allan (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1944-August-27
Kiel War Cemetery, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Sergeant Joseph Edmund Edmund O'Farrell RCAF

Sergeant O'Farrell, Joseph Edmund Edmund (RCAF)

Prisoner of War
1944-August-27
cemetery unknown

Flying Officer Russ E Rogers RCAF

Flying Officer Rogers, Russ E (RCAF)

Prisoner of War
1944-August-27
cemetery unknown

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Leslie Howard Stevenson RCAF

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Stevenson, Leslie Howard (RCAF)
Rear Gunner
Prisoner of War Murdered
1944-August-27
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Keith Tate RCAF

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Tate, Keith (RCAF)

Prisoner of War
1944-August-27
cemetery unknown

Flying Officer Kenneth Milton Tucker RCAF

Flying Officer Tucker, Kenneth Milton (RCAF)

Prisoner of War
1944-August-27
cemetery unknown