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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

Start Here Glossary Canada and World War II Combatants & First Airmen Casualties Air Force Operations Battle of Britain Women in War War Artists

"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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570 Squadron (RAF) (24)

Flight Sergeant

Archer, John Philip

Prisoner of War

1944-09-18

Stirling (LJ594)

Canada

Pilot Officer

Baker, John Douglas

Killed in Action

1944-09-18

Stirling (LK121)

Montreal, Quebec

USA

Flying Officer

Baker, William

Killed in Action

1944-09-23

Stirling (EF298)

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Canada

Flying Officer

Balmer, David Henry

Evader

1944-09-18

Stirling (LJ594)

Comox, B.C. (parents)

Corporal

Barker, Alfred Ernest

Killed in Action

1944-09-18

Stirling (LJ594)

Braintree, Essex, England

Canada

Flying Officer

Belt, Dallas Eugene

Killed in Action

1944-07-29

Stirling (LK133)

Leedale, Alberta

Pilot Officer

Blight, E G

Evader

1944-09-18

Stirling (LJ594)

Canada

Flying Officer

Bradstock, James Ward

Prisoner of War

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Driver

Bridgeman, W H

Evader

1944-09-18

Stirling (LJ594)

Canada

Corporal

Coleman, John Redmond

Killed in Action

1944-09-18

Stirling (LK121)

Montreal, Quebec (parents)

Canada

Flight Sergeant

Cormier, Simon Pierre

Killed in Action

1944-09-23

Stirling (LJ991)

Petit Etang, Nova Scotia

Flight Sergeant

Crabb, Ronald W

Evader

1944-09-18

Stirling (LJ594)

Canada

Warrant Officer 1

Hambrooke, Linton Arthur Sidney

Killed in Action

1944-07-29

Stirling (LK133)

Toronto, Ontario

Flight Sergeant

Hamilton, John Herbert

Killed in Action

1944-09-18

Stirling (LJ594)

Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales

Flying Officer

Hunt, William George Henry

Killed in Action

1944-09-18

Stirling (LJ594)

Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (parents)

Sergeant

Ireland, John R

Prisoner of War

1944-09-18

Stirling (LJ594)

Flying Officer

Keay, Victor Charles

Evader

1944-09-18

Stirling (LJ594)

Kempton, R J

Evader

1944-09-18

Stirling (LJ594)

Driver

Lightwood, Cyril Wiliam

Killed in Action

1944-09-23

Stirling (LJ991)

Flight Sergeant

McGarrie, John

Killed in Action

1944-09-23

Stirling (LJ991)

Canada

Flight Sergeant

Milks, Erle Mayne

Killed in Action

1944-09-23

Stirling (LJ991)

Chelsea, Quebec

Flying Officer

Mombrun, Geoffrey Adrian

Evader

1944-09-18

Stirling (LJ594)

Newfoundland

Flight Sergeant

Murphy, Myles Alphonsus

Killed in Action

1944-07-29

Stirling (LK133)

Bell Island, Newfoundland

Canada

Flight Sergeant

Stell, Harold James

Killed in Action

1944-09-23

Stirling (LJ991)

Brooklin, Ontario