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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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Viney, Taunton Elliot

Killed in Action 1916-05-21

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Birth Date: unkown date

Born: Saffron Walden, Essex, England

Arthur Viney & Edith Henrietta Taunton

Home: Saffron Walden, Essex, England

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Decorations: DSO, MiD

Distinguished Service Order

Mentioned in Dispatches

Service

RNAS

Unit

5 (C) Wing- Wing (RNAS)

Base

Rank

Position

Flight Lieutenant (RN)

Service Numbers

Home

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Saffron Walden, Essex, England

First Burial

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Oostende New Communal Cemetery, Stuiverstraat, Ostend, Belgium

Re-Burial

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Oostende New Communal Cemetery
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Viney first enlisted in the RNAS Armoured Car Service in April 1915. Shortly afterward he transferred to the RNAS and completed the work for his RAC pilots Cert. at Eastbourne on 1915-07-01 (Certificate # 1384).By early 1916 he was with No.5 Naval Wing. He failed to return from a bombing raid in Strutter 9384 on Mariakerke Aerodrome, Ostende Belgium. From all sources it appears that Viney set his Strutter down in the sea off Ostende after the raid, in the hopes of a rescue that did not come.Memorial at Downton Baptist Churchyard, Downton, Wiltshire Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, UK

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