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Latest Posts: PER ARDUA

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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Donald Bennett – Central Page & IWM Sound Recordings

The various items on this website about Donald Bennett, the highly gifted leader of the Pathfinders, have now been gathered on one central page: Donald Bennett, The Pathfinders’ AOC. At the bottom of this page is a link to the…

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Pathfinders in Civvie Street

Our second IWM item this morning, also sent by IWM volunteer Richard Maddox, concerns Pathfinder aircrew and ground crew, and the provisions made for them once the war in Europe had been won and the RAF was beginning the process…

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Viscount Stansgate – The Oldest Flyer in Bomber Command?

Two items from the IWM this morning, both from Richard Maddox who is a volunteer at the museum. The first concerns Bomber Command generally. It is a link to Richard’s post on the IWM Volunteer website about the man who…

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Valentine’s Day Card

A Facebook post by David Layne today reminded me of this page: Valentine Card It has been on our website a long time, having first been posted in 2009 and then updated in 2011. It relates to Robert Crowe, a…

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Bennett Memorial near Birthplace, Australia

In December we posted information about Bennett’s Mae West, preserved after he was shot down in Norway and now owned by the Australian War Memorial (AWM) at Canberra. The Bennett Memorial at the small regional Toowoomba Airport in Queensland, close…

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