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KWINTER, Samuel Noah
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- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Birth
- February 27, 1921
- Date of Death
- August 22, 1944
- Place of Burial
- Budapest, Hungary
- Cemetery
- Budapest War Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 23
- Enlistment No.
- J-25072
- Rank
- Flying Officer
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Flying Officer Samuel Kwinter of Toronto, Ontario, was officially presumed to h ave died on August 22, 1944, following air operations overseas. He had completed 22 operational flights when the Halifax of which he was bombardier was shot down during a raid on Vezstrum, Hungary. Enlisting in the air force in July 1942, he trained at Toronto and Dauphin, Manitoba, and graduated as a sergeant pilot from the flying school at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, in March 1943. He was commissioned immediately and was sent overseas in June 1943. His brother, Pilot Officer Sam Kwinter, also served with the R.C.A.F. overseas.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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