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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."
Contact

Baird, Hugh (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1944-January-04

Male Head

Birth Date: 1923

Born:

Parents: Hugh & Eliza Jane Baird

Spouse:

Home: Mating, Auckland, New Zealand (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RNZAF

Unit

487 (FB) Sqn- Squadron (RNZAF)
Ki Te Mutunga Through to the end

Base

RAF Hunsdon

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

415181

Home

Google Map

Mating, Auckland, New Zealand (parents)

Memorial Location

Google Map

Runnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 263

Flying Officer John Frederick Parker (nav) RCAF J/21710 was also killed.. Aircraft assumed to have come down in the sea. Pilot is on Runnymede Memorial. Nav Parkers body was washed ashore on Jan. 7 at Plage-St CÃ©cile, about 16km north of Berck-sur-Mer, France. He was buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Plot 11, Row B. Grave 20.

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Crew or Other Personnel

Mosquito LR331

Flight Sergeant Hugh Baird RNZAF

Flight Sergeant Baird, Hugh (RNZAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1944-January-04
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK

Flying Officer John Frederick Parker RCAF

Flying Officer Parker, John Frederick (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1944-January-04
Eastern Cemetery, Boulongne, Pas-De-Calais, France

Mission

Mosquito FB.Mk VI LR331

Combat Calais France 1944-January-04 to 1944-January-04

487 () () RAF Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England

487 New Zealand Squadron (Ki Te Mutunga). Mosquito aircraft LR 331 lost whilst attacking military installations in Northern France. The pilot, not Canadian, missing believed killed.