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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."
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Cook, George Victor (Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1943-August-26

Male Head

Birth Date: 1922

Born:

Parents: Charles Stephen and Gertrude Laura Cook

Spouse:

Home: Wembley, Middlesex, England (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAF

Unit

149 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Fortis Nocte Strong by night

Base

RAF Lakenheath

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Navigator

Service Numbers

1319564

Home

Google Map

Wembley, Middlesex, England (parents)

Target

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Nuremburg Germany

Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England Stirling Mk III EE877 OJ-E Aircraft shot down by flak and crashed in the Rhine River near Porz-Langel, Germany. At a later date and time of low water in the river, the bodies of the crewmen were recovered and buried.

Crew or Other Personnel

Stirling EE877

Sergeant George Victor Cook RAF

Sergeant Cook, George Victor (RAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1943-August-26
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Victor Alfred Deacock RAF

Sergeant Deacock, Victor Alfred (RAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-August-26
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Walter Crampton Havercroft RAF

Sergeant Havercroft, Walter Crampton (RAF)

Killed in Action
1943-August-26
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Philip Henry Johnson RAF

Sergeant Johnson, Philip Henry (RAF)

Killed in Action
1943-August-26
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Harry Reginald Jack Richardson RAF

Sergeant Richardson, Harry Reginald Jack (RAF)
Bomb Aimer
Killed in Action
1943-August-26
cemetery unknown

Flt Sergeant Geoffrey Sturtridge Steer RAF

Flt Sergeant Steer, Geoffrey Sturtridge (RAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-August-26
cemetery unknown