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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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Hill, Harold George (Sergeant)

Prisoner of War 1940-June-30

Male Head

Birth Date: unkown date

Born:

Parents:

Spouse:

Home:

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAF

Unit

61 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Purum Tonantes Thundering through the clear air

Base

RAF Hemswell

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Wireless Operator/Air Gunner

Service Numbers

580654
PoW: 133

Footprints on the Sands of Time, RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939-45 by Oliver Clutton-Brock, page 318

Crew or Other Personnel

Hampden P4356

Flight Lieutenant Lloyd Stanley Adams RAF

Flight Lieutenant Adams, Lloyd Stanley (RAF)
Observer
Prisoner of War
1940-June-30
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Ralph Burnett RAF

Sergeant Burnett, Ralph (RAF)
Air Gunner (Rear)
Killed in Action
1940-June-30
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Harold George Hill RAF

Sergeant Hill, Harold George (RAF)
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Prisoner of War
1940-June-30
cemetery unknown

Flying Officer George Michael Wyatt RAF

Flying Officer Wyatt, George Michael (RAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1940-June-30
cemetery unknown

Mission

Hampden P4356

Bombing 1940-June-29 to 1940-June-30

61 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Hemswell

61(Hull's own) Squadron RAF (Pur purum tonantes) RAF Hemswell. Hampden I aircraft P 4356 QR-S was shot down by a marine flak battery during an operation against targets in Geestacht, Germany. The Hampden crashed into shallow water just off the coast between Spieka Neufeld and Neuwerk, Germany

Sergeant R Burnett (RAF) and Flying Officer GM Wyatt (RAF) were killed in action

Pilot Officer LS Adams (RAF)(Can) and Sergeant HG Hill (RAF) survived and both were taken as Prisoners of War

Unvetted Source [Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database]...

Unvetted Source Crash of a Handley Page HP52 Hampden I off Spieka: 2 killed I...

Unvetted Source World War 2 - RAF No 61 Squadron, May/June 1940

Unvetted Source Flugzeugabshusse und Abstruze um Cuxhaven im WW 2

Unvetted Source 5e6b8ac17f499bfb284d024a_NCATheYearsPart1samplepages.pdf