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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

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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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Davidson, Archibald Cattanach (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1944-October-06

Male Head

Birth Date: 1920

Born:

Parents: James Alfred Archibald & Hellen Ogilvy Davidsov, Mascot, New South Wales, Australia

Spouse:

Home:

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAAF

Unit

7 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Diem Per Noctem By day and by night

Base

RAF Oakington

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Service Numbers

424158

Target

Google Map

Scholven Germany

Took off from Oakington at 15:02 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: MG-X Bomber Command) on an operation to Scholven-Buer.

Shot down and crashed at Wissel, 3 miles from Emmerich, 25 miles from Arnhem.

Killed includes Davidson: Pilot Officer Walter Alexander MacWilliam RCAF J/92159 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 18. D. 8.

POWs: Sergeant Joseph Gordon Forster RAF POW camp not listed. Flight Sergeant William Henry Sweet RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Flight Sergeant Frederick Gordon Etheridge RCAF POW camp not listed. Flight Sergeant Kenneth Ivy Roy Milligan RCAF POW camp not listed.

Crew or Other Personnel

Lancaster PB241

Flying Officer Raymond Gerard Beaune RCAF

Flying Officer Beaune, Raymond Gerard (RCAF)
Pilot
Prisoner of War
1944-October-06
cemetery unknown

Flight Sergeant Archibald Cattanach Davidson RAAF

Flight Sergeant Davidson, Archibald Cattanach (RAAF)

Killed in Action
1944-October-06
cemetery unknown

Pilot Officer Frederick Gordon Etheridge RCAF

Pilot Officer Etheridge, Frederick Gordon (RCAF)
Navigator
Prisoner of War
1944-October-06
cemetery unknown

Pilot Officer Walter Alexander MacWilliam RCAF

Pilot Officer MacWilliam, Walter Alexander (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-October-06
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Germany

Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Ivy Roy Milligan RCAF

Flight Lieutenant Milligan, Kenneth Ivy Roy (RCAF)
Navigator
Prisoner of War
1944-October-06
cemetery unknown

Mission

Lancaster Mk.I/III PB241

Bombing Scholven Germany 1944-October-06 to 1944-October-06

7 (B) Sqn (RAF) Oakington

Missing on daylight operation to Synthetic Oil Plants at Scholven-Buer 6 Oct 1944