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This database lists all known RCAF flying-related personnel who served 1939 - 1945 and onwards in many cases.
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"Conversion from the original data held as images of old teletype sheets must have taken Major Paradie years.
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6289
Gunner
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Boatman
PLT
Canadian Artillery
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RCAF
120Sqn (RCAF)
1MD (RCAF)
1ITS (RCAF)
10EFTS (RCAF)
9SFTS (RCAF)
3PRC (RCAF)
53OTU (RAF)
43Sqn (RAF)
MSFU (RAF)
MSFU (RAF)
401Sqn (RCAF)
412Sqn (RCAF)
412Sqn (RCAF)
RCAF
RCAF
Western Air Command (RCAF)
133Sqn (RCAF)
War Staff College
135Sqn (RCAF)
RCAF Patricia Bay
RCAF
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Moth
Harvard
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Master & Spitfire
Hurricane
Cat Hurricane
Cat Hurricane Z4569
Spitfire
Spitfire
Spitfire MJ304
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Kittyhawk
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Kittyhawk
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1936 - 1939 - Served in the Canadian MIlitia
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18 Aug 1939 - Transferred to the RCAF
15 Dec 1939 - Boatman in Marine section
22 Aug 1940 - Remustered to Pilot
16 Jan 1941
22 Feb 1941
3 May 1941
10 Aug 1941 - UK
16 Sep 1941
2 Nov 41
16 Dec 41 - Merchant Ship Fighter Unit
10 Feb 1942 - Crashed at sea - Unhurt
11 Feb 1943
12 Apr 1944 - Commending Officer
2 Aug 1944 - Shot down by a Bf109 - Evaded capture
20 Aug 1944 - UK
16 Oct 1944 - Repatriated to Canada
12 Dec 1944 - RCAF Station Vancouver
31 Jan 1945 - Commanding Officer
1 March 1945
3 June 1945 - Commanding Officer
11 Sep 1945
1 Feb 1946 - Released from the RCAF

(Photo: F/L Sheppard climbing in his 401Sqn Spitfire)
- Distinguished Flying Cross - No.412 Squadron - Award effective 11 August 1944 as per London Gazette dated 22 August 1944 and AFRO 2231/44 dated 13 October 1944.
- Deceased on 13 Oct 1962, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(Information courtesy Francois Dutil)

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