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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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Pohe, Porokoru Papatu John (Flying Officer)

Prisoner of War KIA 1944-March-31

Male Head

Birth Date: 1921-December-10

Born: Whanganui, Whanganui District, Manawatu-Whanganui, New Zealand

Parents: Son of Whatarangi Ropoama Pohe and Honoria Maraea Pohe, of Taihape, Auckland, New Zealand

Spouse:

Home: Taihape, Auckland, New Zealand

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Mentioned in Dispatches (1)

Service

RNZAF

Unit

51 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Swift And Sure

Base

RAF Snaith

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

402894

Home

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Taihape, Auckland, New Zealand

Target

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Hanover Germany

Temporary Burial

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Sagan POW Camp

Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied

Final Burial

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Cmentarz Wojenny Wspolnoty Brytyjskiej w Poznaniu
Collective Grave 9 A

Flying Officer PPJ Pohe MiD (RNZAF) was one of the 76 airmen to escape from Stalag Luft III in the Great Escape. Pohe was recaptured near Gorlitz, Germany and murdered 31 March 1944 by Gestapo agents (W. Lux and W. Scharpwinkel) and cremated at Gorlitz

Flying Officer Pohe was also known by his Maori name of Porokoru Patapu

Fifty of the seventy three escapees who were recaptured were murdered by the Gestapo on direct orders of Adolph Hitler

Only three of the escapees of the Great Escape made it to freedom

Unvetted Source Remembering the men of the Great Escape I RAF Benevolent Fund

Unvetted Source Vitz Archive of Allied Victims of Axis Murders

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Commonwealth War Grave Commission International Bomber Command Centre

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Unvetted Source www.nzwargraves.org.nz