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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

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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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Wirth, Edmund (Pilot Officer)

Prisoner of War 1944-March-18

Male Head

Birth Date: unkown date

Born:

Parents:

Spouse:

Home: Westmount, Quebec

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

76 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Resolute

Base

Holme-on-Spalding-Moor

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

J/88606
PoW: 3268

Home

Westmount, Quebec

Target

Frankfurt Germany

Took off from Holme on Spalding Moor at 19:43 in Halifax Mk III (Sqn code: MP-V Bomber Command).

Abandoned & crashed at Kelberg

One fatality in the crash: Flying Officer Kenneth Grant Ramsay RCAF J/22060 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery

and seven POWs: Sergeant Edward Thomas Henry Giles RAF 1604913 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria Sergeant George Frederick James Haskett RAF 1468176 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria Flight Sergeant David Joseph RAF 1576383 POW Stalag Luft L4 Sagan and Belaria Sergeant John Kenneth Kirton RAF 1004925 POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia Sergeant Louis Makens RAF 1442236 POW Stalag Luft L4 Sagan and Belaria Sergeant William Sinclair RAF 1823159 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria Flight Sergeant Edmund Wirth RCAF R/157474 POW Stalag Luft L6 Heydekrug

Crew or Other Personnel

Halifax LW655

Flying Officer Kenneth Grant Ramsay RCAF

Flying Officer Ramsay, Kenneth Grant (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1944-March-18
Soldaten Friedhof Alliierte Piloten 2WK, Am Englischen Friedhof, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany

Pilot Officer Edmund Wirth RCAF

Pilot Officer Wirth, Edmund (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer
Prisoner of War
1944-March-18
cemetery unknown

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