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RCAF Kittyhawk AK915 - "Category A" Mt. Joli, Quebec

Posted by Lee Walsh on Tue Dec 17, 2002 11:46:32 AM

Would anybody have any information on this Kittyhawk via J. Griffins book. Looking for the TOC, SOC, manufact #, side number, and version. Anyone have a copy, I really should buy one of these books when I see one! : (

As for the P-40 nuts out there, any advice where the "aircraft record card" is held for this particular aircraft, if it had a US service career? Have a feeling it might be the USAFM, am I right?

Here is some of information on the crash that killed the pilot: recovery, could be done perhaps...

RCAF# C/856
Rank: Squadron Leader
Name: Joseph Armand Jacques Chevrier
Unit: 130 {Fighter Squadron}, Royal Canadian Air Force
Died: Monday July 6 1942 on St. Lawerence River near Cap Chat, Quebec while flying 130 Sqdn Kittyhawk P-40 {AE- } serial number AK915
Age: 25

Additional information shows that he was the son of Dr. Aurele Chevrier and Rina Chevrier, of St. Lambert, Province of Quebec. A.D.C. to His Excellency the Governor General, the Earl of Athlone[Prince Alexander of Teck], from August 1st, 1941 to March 31, 1942.

Records held at the National Archives of Canada with respects to the accident:

RG24, National Defence, Series E-1-b, Reel C-5934
File: 1300-AK915-1
Access code: 90
File Title: Kittyhawk Aircraft - Accident at Cap Chat, Quebec. Squadron/Leader Joseph A. Jacques Chevrier killed.
Outside Dates: 1942
Finding Aid number: 24-100




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