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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

JENNIE MACK GRAY

Jennie Mack Gray

Writer, Historian, Chairperson of RAF Pathfinders Archive

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