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Ration Cards for Aircrew

In the current Covid-19 situation, there have been various mutterings about rationing becoming necessary, so now seems a good time to take a quick look at rationing in the Second World War … It is perhaps a little-known fact that…

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War Artist John Berry and the Pathfinders

Amongst the tens of thousands of items in the care of the Imperial War Museum is an exceptional art collection ranging from the First World War to contemporary conflicts. Many of the Second World War items were commissioned by the…

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Covid 19 Death Boot

So much time has been taken up recently with dealing with the knock-on effects of Covid 19 that there has only been one post on this website this month. We hope to remedy this as from tomorrow. In the meantime,…

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Eric Skinner after Capture by the Germans

We have recently received a haunting image of Eric Skinner of the Burns crew who was captured by the Germans on 31 August 1943. All but one of the crew had baled out of the aircraft when, according to the…

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RAF Upwood, 1952, ‘Appointment in London’

Last visit to RAF Upwood for the moment. The film ‘Appointment in London’ was filmed at the station in 1952, only seven years after the war, and it is probably the closest one can get to seeing the station as…

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The RAF and the Channel Dash

On 11 February 1942, the prestigious German battleships the Scharnhorst, the Gneisenau and the Prinz Eugen broke out of the westerly French port of Brest and sailed east, up the English Channel, in a break for the security of the German-controlled…

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Linked with the RAF Pathfinders Archive

PER ARDUA: The Air War and Beyond – linked with The RAF Pathfinders Archive. As the Archive’s website has been so successful and has expanded so greatly, this second website has effectively become a digital annexe to it, containing information…

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O Valiant Hearts

When adding the details of the loss of the Richards crew to the AFTERMATH website yesterday, I looked up Arthur North on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website and discovered that the epitaph used for his permanent gravestone came from…

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97 Squadron Losses on D-Day

This morning I posted the details on the RAF Pathfinders Archive of the loss of the Commanding Officer of 97 Squadron, Wing Commander Carter, and the crew of a Norwegian pilot Lieutenant Jespersen. Whilst there were other Pathfinder casualties on…

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RAF Service Teams, Liberated Europe

Thinking about David O’Connell this afternoon (see the last post), I remembered a long section in Anthony Cotterell’s account of D-Day and afterwards, in which he meets an RAF team come to service the aircraft and construct airfields to support…

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