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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.
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CWHM flies one of the two airworthy Lancasters in the world. FM213 is usually marked as KB726 honouring Andrew Mynarski, VC.
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"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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524 Squadron (RAF) -

No. 524 Squadron of the Royal Air Force. Its stations and dates are in the unit history.

Unit Accident Records: 524 Sqn RAF ()

No Crash Cards Found

Unit Casualtues: 524 Sqn RAF (25)

Australia

Reginald Worland Russell Reginald Worland Russell

1944-July-09

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF375

West Colac, Victoria, Australia (parents)

Geoffrey David Reen

1944-July-09

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF375

Wealdstone, Middlesex, England (parents)

William Iselin Howitt

1944-July-09

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF375

Strathaven, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Joseph Andrew Cochran

1944-July-09

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF375

Frederick Hubert Brock

1944-July-09

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF375

Easton, Wells, Somerste, England (parents)

Geoffrey Frederick Abbott

1944-July-09

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF375

Canada

Joseph Adelard Roland Belanger

1944-July-09

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF375

Bagot, Quebec

Canada

Frederick William Schwartz

1944-July-13

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF374

Shell Lake, Saskatchewan

Derek Wilson Aston

1944-August-30

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF176

Canada

Charles Reginald Watts

1944-August-30

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF176

Lloydminster, Alberta

Canada

Nathan Shlahetka

1944-August-30

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF176

Kelowna, British Columbia

Canada

Kenneth Albert Roche

1944-August-30

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF176

Edmonton, Alberta

Canada

1944-August-30

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF176

Montreal, Quebec

Canada

Hugh Edward Maguire

1944-August-30

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF176

Montreal, Quebec

Canada

Lewis George Henry Griffiths

1944-August-30

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF176

Montreal, Quebec

Canada

Robert Bertram Mumberson

1944-September-01

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF234

New Lowell, Ontario (parents)

Canada

Morrison Carlyle Grant

1944-September-01

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF234

Williamstown, Ontario

Canada

Harold John Callin

1944-September-01

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF234

Montreal, Quebec

Canada

Floyd Alexander Steels

1944-October-04

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF319

London, Ontario

Canada

George Arthur Slater

1944-October-04

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF319

Vancouver, British Columbia

Canada

Robert Harry Ridgway

1944-October-04

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF319

New Westminster, British Columbia

Canada

Gordon Ernest Pratt

1944-October-04

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF319

North Gower, Ontario

Canada

John Richard Murray

1944-October-04

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF319

Armstrong, British Columbia

Canada

1944-October-04

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. Xlll MF319

Edmonton, Alberta

Canada

Bjorn Ramsey Nelson

1945-March-04

Killed in Action

Wellington B. Mk. XIV HF361

Forget, Saskatchewan