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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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7 BGS- Bombing & Gunnery School (RCAF) (23)

Canada

Sergeant

Black, Donald

Killed in Flying Accident

1944-04-14

Bolingbroke (10071)

Vancouver, British Columbia

Canada

Warrant Officer 2nd Class

Cohen, Syd

Died

1943-03-15

()

Winnipeg, Manitoba (parents)

Canada

Leading Aircraftman

Duncan, Donald Watt

Killed in Flying Accident

1942-09-02

Battle (1962)

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Canada

Pilot Officer

Esselmont, Richard Donald

Killed in Flying Accident

1943-07-27

Bolingbroke (9944)

Kamloops, British Columbia

Canada

Leading Aircraftwoman

Foran, Sarah Josephine

Died

1943-06-30

()

Guelph, Ontario

Canada

Warrant Officer 2nd Class

Gaunce, Stanley David

Killed in Flying Accident

1944-02-26

Bolingbroke (9890)

High River, Alberta

Canada

Leading Aircraftman

Gilmour, Wesley

Killed in Flying Accident

1942-09-18

Battle (1877)

Brandon, Manitoba

New Zealand

Leading Aircraftman

Glenday, Neil MacMillan

Killed in Flying Accident

1943-07-27

Bolingbroke (9944)

Canada

Leading Aircraftman

Heal, Kenneth Edgar

Killed

1941-11-09

()

Toronto, Ontario

Leading Aircraftman

Kinloch, James Alexander

Killed in Flying Accident

1944-02-26

Bolingbroke (9890)

Leading Aircraftman

Lambert, Kenneth Albert

Killed in Flying Accident

1942-09-02

Battle (1962)

Hillsborough, Sheffield, England

Trinidad

Sergeant

Lowe, Clement Peter Pruvot

Killed in Flying Accident

1942-09-02

Battle (1962)

Canada

Warrant Officer 2nd Class

Mathers, Russel David

Killed in Flying Accident

1943-07-27

Bolingbroke (9944)

Stayner, Ontario

Sergeant

McNeill, John Howard Montgomery

Killed in Flying Accident

1942-09-18

Battle (1877)

Leading Aircraftman

Musto, Francis William Alexander

Killed in Flying Accident

1942-09-18

Battle (1877)

Sergeant

Ogden, Alan

Killed in Flying Accident

1942-09-02

Lysander (2389)

Canada

Sergeant

Pickard, Roy Eugene

Killed in Flying Accident

1944-02-26

Bolingbroke (9890)

Vancouver, British Columbia

Canada

Leading Aircraftman

Pickering, Roy Herbert

Killed in Flying Accident

1944-02-02

Lysander (2392)

St Thomas, Ontario

Leading Aircraftman

Reid, Thomas Muir

Killed in Flying Accident

1944-02-26

Bolingbroke (9890)

Canada

Warrant Officer 2

Steenson, William Joseph

Killed in Flying Accident

1944-04-14

Bolingbroke (10071)

Morden, Manitoba

Canada

Leading Aircraftman

Trudel, Paul Arthur

Killed in Flying Accident

1943-07-27

Bolingbroke (9944)

Victoria, British Columbia

Canada

Pilot Officer

Wiggins, William Thomas

Killed in Flying Accident

1944-02-02

Lysander (2392)

Toronto, Ontario

USA

Aircraftman 2nd Class

Young, Daniel Randall

Died

1941-12-24

()

Kansas City, Missouri, USA