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Paradie RCAF Archive: 45,000+ Entries

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This data is constantly being updated and enhanced by Captain François Dutil RCAF
Further RCAF information is on our Pages Relating to Canada and our RCAF Notes Database and in the RCAF section of our Allied Losses and Incidents Database

This database lists all known RCAF flying-related personnel who served 1939 - 1945 and onwards in many cases.
You may also want to check RCAF entries in the Allied Losses and Incidents Database.
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In November 2017 François Dutil began adding extensive information and many images from his research files,
for which we are grateful. Please contact us via our Helpdesk if you have additional information or images.
"Conversion from the original data held as images of old teletype sheets must have taken Major Paradie years.
The Paradie database is as close to a treasure as the World will see.” François Dutil

DUPLICATES EXIST IN THIS DATABASE
We have integrated entries from several databases in the Paradie Archive and as a result there may be more than one entry for a given individual. To ensure you read all the data we have on a person, use the Service Number (without the prefix J/ P/ R/ etc.) to perform a further search for more information on that person.
DATA ALIGNMENT IN PROCESS OF BEING ADJUSTED
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Most records were originally encoded with aircraft serial numbers in the format AB 123. The standard is to use the format AB123. We have a long term project underway to change all serial numbers to the standard form, but with 50,000+ records this is a long process.
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20 Oct 1941 - Enlisted in the RCAF
28 Feb 1942
25 April 1942
3 July 1942
10 Nov 1942 - UK
26 Feb 1943
23 March 1943
18 May 1943
5 Aug 1943
21 Sep 1943
9 Nov 1943
13 Dec 1943
17 Jan 1944
22 June 1944 - Damaged by night fighter, crash landed
9 Sep 1944 - Instructor
22 July 1945 - Repatriated to Canada
12 Sep 1945 - Retired from the RCAF
- Distinguished Flying Cross - No.214 Squadron - Award effective 1 December 1944 as per London Gazette dated 12 December 1944 and AFRO 337/45 dated 23 February 1945.
- Mention in Despatches - Overseas - Award effective 1 January 1946 as per London Gazette of that date and AFRO 388/46 dated 12 April 1946.
- Legion d'Honneur (France) - 2017.
- Peden was made Queen's Counsel in December 1964.
- Deceased on 6 January 2022, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- Author of the book "A thousand shall fall"
(Information courtesy Francois Dutil)

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