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Latest Posts: RAF PATHFINDERS ARCHIVE

Johnny Nicholls’ Article in ‘Aviation Heritage’

Can anyone help us locate a copy of the article in ‘Aviation Heritage’ written by Johnny Nicholls? (Nicholls Crew page) We have a photocopy of part of the article but are missing pages 151 and 152 in particular. Here is…

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Heroic Endeavour – article by Sean Feast

Sean has written an article for the Archive’s website about the costly operation against Cologne on 23 December 1944 in which Bob Palmer won the VC, one of only three VCs won by the Path Finder Force. It was a…

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Sean Feast & Meet The Team

We are delighted to welcome Sean Feast as a Trustee of the Archive. Sean is a keen supporter of the military with a passion for aviation. Amongst his many books is The Pathfinder Companion, which was published in association with…

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Charles Owen Diary Entry, D-Day

Charles Owen‘s diary records of this day: 6 June 1944 Target: St Pierre du Mont – Coastal battery A/C Lancaster ND961 N-NAN Time: 3.50 We thought the briefing sounded a little odd for this trip, and sure enough when we…

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One for the Ground Crew – 109 Squadron, Mosquitoes

The ground crew on Bomber Command squadrons were the unsung heroes, working hard in all weathers. It is good to see in this remarkable photograph of ‘A’ Flight of the Pathfinders’ 109 Squadron that the ground crew are standing alongside…

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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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