Talk:Andrew Mynarski

Rank
All biographical sources I have, or have found online, including the Veterans Affairs website, indicate that Mynarski was a Pilot Officer at the time of the incident. I could not find any information about him ever having been a Warrant Officer. He was, according to the linked source below, a Flight Sergeant up until a day before the crash. One well-referenced source http://www.constable.ca/mynarski.htm says this:

"The two airgunners, Mynarski and Brophy had grown close in their few months together. Despite their different ranks, up to the 12th Mynarski was a Flight Sergeant, Brophy a Pilot Officer" ...

"The 8th of June saw them on a raid to Acheres marshalling yards. Then they were rested until June 12th. On June 11th all Canadian Flight Sergeants were commissioned as Pilot Officers so the crews could all live and socialize as equals and to increase their pay. This was a long-standing sore point for Canadians flying with the RAF. Officers and men were separate on the ground, but had to fight for their lives together in the air. For Canadians who were used to a very egalitarian society this was particularly difficult to understand or accept. Promoting all men to officers was the easiest and quickest way around the problem. On the 12th they participated in a fighter affiliation and radar test flight. That night, June 12/13 would be their 13th operation as a crew with a raid on the marshalling yards at Cambrai, France." -- BC 20:08, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Reply
Brian, this information given above is derived from a website which is mainly accurate but in the case of rank, according to the curator and records of the Andrew Mynarski Memorial Hall, Andrew Charles Mynarski was a Warrant Officer 2nd class at the time of the action on 12 June 1944. He was promoted postumously in September 1944 to the rank of Pilot Officer. Bzuk 22:41 2 February 2007 (UTC).


 * Bill, thanks for the info. Even if we changed it back to your original wording on ranks (that he was W/O), the external web pages the article links to have conflicting information. Since there is this debate, I wonder if we should just not mention any ranks for anyone in the article for now. Dumore and Carter in their book Reap the Whirlwind about No. 6 Group mentions no ranks perhaps for this very reason. -- BC 22:48, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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