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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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Halifax LV997
13 June 1935 - Enlisted in the RCAF - Halifax, Nova Scotia
23 Aug 1935 - Ab Initio - Borden, Ontario
7 July 1936 - Ab Initio - Borden, Ontario
14 Apr 1937 - Instrument Course - Borden, Ontario
1938 - Ottawa, Ontario
24 Oct 1938 - Calgary, Alberta
12 June 1939 - Flying Instrcutor Course - Trenton, Ontario
3 Nov 1939 - Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
8 Nov 1940 - Navigation Course - London, Ontario
10 Jan 1941 - Navigation Course - Rivers, Manitoba
7 Apr 1941 - Winnipeg, Manitoba
4 May 1943 - Chief Navigation Instructor - Rivers, Manitoba
17 July 1943 - Bournemouth, UK
27 July 1943 - RAF Ossington, Nottinghamshire
18 Aug 1943 - RAF Dishforth, Yorkshire
21 Sep 1943 - RAF Honeybourne, Worcestershire
14 Dec 1943 - RAF Dishforth, Yorkshire
27 Jan 1944 - Sqn Commanding Officer - Skipton-on-Swale, Yorkshire
29 July 1944 - Shot down by a night fighter
Commemorated Kiel War Cemetery, 2. E. 20. Germany.
Son of Robert and Rachel (nee MacDonald) Blane; Husband of Marguerite Louise (nee Merkel) Blane, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
(Information courtesy Francois Dutil)

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