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Latest Posts: RAF PATHFINDERS ARCHIVE

Remembrance Sunday

We are remembering all the Pathfinder losses tomorrow and on Remembrance Day, but one particular grave has been chosen to symbolise all, that of Bob Stewart, a twenty-one year old navigator. See the page on our new website Pathfinder War…

Searby & The End of a Kiwi Gunner’s Tour

John Searby (left, with Bennett in 1944, IWM: CH 20628) was one of the best known and most revered of the Pathfinder squadron and station commanders. According to the dates in Bennett’s book Pathfinder, he was: CO of 83 Squadron from 9 May…

Harris, Bennett and Flying Boats

One of the pages on our new website, The Pathfinders and the World They Knew: https://rafpathfinders.com/harris-bennett-flying-boats/

New Website for the Archive

At the RAF Pathfinders Archive, we have begun a review of this entire website: raf-pathfinders.com It has been added to and expanded for many years, and is now very much in need of an overhaul. To facilitate the clean-up, a new…

Donald Margach and Guy Gibson

We always welcome corrections or additions to the information on these pages. Sometimes it is the smallest details which really count. Amongst other points, Clive Smith, who specialises in 106 Squadron on which Donald Margach served with Guy Gibson, has…

JENNIE MACK GRAY

Jennie Mack Gray

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Latest Posts: The Pathfinders & the World they Knew

Pathfinder War Losses

The total Pathfinder losses, incurred from August 1942 to May 1945, were given by Donald Bennett, their Air Officer Commanding (AOC), as being 3,618 men.[1] One of those lost was the 21 year old Robert Stewart of the Kirkwood Crew whose grave at Braemar is seen with this year’s Remembrance poppy. Photograph of Robert’s gravestone […]

Searby & the End of a Kiwi Gunner’s Tour

John Searby (left, with Bennett in 1944, IWM: CH 20628) was one of the best known and most revered of the Pathfinder squadron and station commanders. According to the dates in Bennett’s book Pathfinder, he was: CO of 83 Squadron from 9 May 1943 until 2 November 1943 Station Commander at Upwood from 20 November […]

Harris, Bennett & Flying Boats

An article about Harris and Bennett at Pembroke Dock in the early 1930s …

Allan Templeton, Mentioned in Despatches

Allan Templeton (his first name was Arthur but he was known by his second name) was a wireless operator from Newfoundland. He had a flying career packed with incident even before he joined the Pathfinders in February 1945. Amongst the many astonishing incidents in his wartime life was the heroic action which led to a […]

Medicine in Bomber Command

A quick overview of medical services on the bomber stations …