Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of Joseph Alexander Barabonoff – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Grave marker – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Grave marker – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Attestation Paper – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Correspondence – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Correspondence – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Correspondence – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Memorial – Ottawa Memorial ... In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave.

Memorial – Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Barabonoff is also commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON.

Newspaper clipping – From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – This newspaper clipping appeared in a 1946 edition of "The Guardian" newspaper, Charlottetown, PEI. The airplane mentioned in the article was a Liberator aircraft # 3701 enroute from Gander, Newfoundland to Dorval, Quebec. It crashed and burned on the west side of a foothill of Black Mountain in Quebec. There is a Memorial Cairn on Black Mountain that was erected in memory of the twenty four gallant lads who lost their lives there.

St. Donat Roman Catholic Cemetery

Memorial Plaque on Black Mountain – A picture of the memorial plaque erected at the site of the crash that took the lives of 24 Canadians.

Close-Up of Memorial Plaque

Inscription – Warrant Officer Class II JOSEPH ALEXANDER BARABONOFF is commemorated on this panel of the Ottawa Memorial. He is one of 24 members of the RCAF, who were killed when the Liberator bomber in which they were flying from Gander, Newfoundland to Dorval, Quebec, crashed into Black Mountain, near St. Donat, Quebec on October 20, 1943. The plane wreckage was not found until June 1946. All of the airmen listed on this panel died in this crash.

Newspaper Clipping – List of airmen killed in this plane crash. Source: Globe and Mail, November 4, 1943.

Dedication Panel – Dedicatory inscription at the Ottawa Memorial

Ottawa Memorial Panel – The Ottawa Memorial