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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…

Read More Johnny Nicholls’ Article in ‘Aviation Heritage’

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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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…

Read More Sean Feast & Meet The Team

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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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…

Read More One for the Ground Crew – 109 Squadron, Mosquitoes

Unfortunately, due to the ever-increasing number of enquiries and our slender resources, not to mention the complications brought by COVID-19, we can no longer undertake research enquiries except for a selected few. These are the ones which promise to add…

Read More Research Enquiries

Just a quick note, prompted by a comment on our Guy Gibson post yesterday, to say that over the coming months we will be substantially increasing information on the background to the Path Finder Force’s war. This is because the…

Read More The Pathfinders’ World

Today is the anniversary of the Dams Raid, the most famous Bomber Command raid of the war. Guy Gibson received the Victoria Cross for his leadership and the account in the London Gazette is still thrilling today, 77 years later.…

Read More Guy Gibson, the Dams Raid, and the Pathfinders

VICTORY MESSAGE To: The Path Finder Force From: Air Vice-Marshal D C T Bennett, CB, CBE, DSO. Great Britain and the Commonwealth have made a contribution to the civilised world so magnificent that history alone will be able to appreciate…

Read More VE Day, 1945 – Victory at the Pathfinders

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Read More Victory in Europe: Avoiding Damage to Public Property

At the end of the war, many Pathfinder squadrons had photographs taken of their aircrew, occasionally including some of the ground crew as well. There are a number of these celebratory photographs on this site under different subject headings, but…

Read More End of War Celebratory Squadron Photographs

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Read More Horace Bennett’s Photos of Germany, May 1945

Probably at no time in its existence has the prestige of the RAF stood higher than at the end of the Second World War. The huge part that the RAF had played in the Allied victory was emphasised at that…

Read More The RAF’s Sir Arthur Tedder and the German Surrender

What a difference six days made! Less than a week after the Pathfinder Mosquito attacks on Kiel, and on the airfields in the Kiel and Lubeck area, Pathfinder Lancasters were back using the airfield at Lubeck to collect and bring…

Read More POWs brought back from Lubeck, near Kiel, 9 May 1945

The last Bomber Command attack of the war took place on the night of 2/3 May, when Pathfinder Mosquitoes, in two forces of 16 and 126 respectively, together with 37 Mosquitoes of 100 Group. bombed Kiel and nearby airfields. This…

Read More The Final Pathfinder Operation, Kiel and Nearby Airfields, 2/3 May 1945

The Pathfinders flew two operations on 25 April 1945, the last major bombing operations which it undertook. One of these was to Wangerooge, the other to Berchtesgaden, a command centre and favourite resort of Adolf Hitler. In all the time…

Read More The End of the War Approaches: Berchtesgaden Operation

As the end of the war approached, the number of bombing sorties dropped off precipitously. The last major strategic operation in which the Pathfinders took part was on 25 April against the German island of Wangerooge, the most easterly of…

Read More The End of the War Approaches: Last Major Pathfinder Bombing Operations

As the end of the war approached, Bomber Command Lancasters began flying to Brussels and other Continental airfields to collect the liberated prisoners of war. Pathfinder squadrons’ ORBs contain many entries for what was known as Operation Exodus. One of…

Read More The End of the War Approaches: Operation Exodus

By 29 April 1945 the end of the war was in sight. Lancaster bombers were diverted from their accustomed bombing operations to humanitarian missions. One of these was Operation Manna, which began today 75 years ago. See our new page:…

Read More The End of the War Approaches: Operation Manna

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Read More Vernon Smith’s DFM, 7 Squadron

The last of our topical posts for the time being on the type of restrictions and shortages which people put up with during the war. The three items all appeared in the same edition of the Manchester Evening News on…

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We have solved the mystery of the Bullimore ration coupon on the last post and where it came from (an anonymous donor). Looking through the Bullimore folder, we came across this other document about RAF restrictions on movement in 1943.…

Read More Within Bounds – or Not …

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Read More Ration Cards for Aircrew

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…

Read More War Artist John Berry and the Pathfinders

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,…

Read More Covid 19 Death Boot

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…

Read More Eric Skinner after Capture by the Germans

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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What is thought to be the worst accident involving ground crew on a Pathfinder station took place on 9 September 1944 when bombs detonated during a routine job. Seven men were killed, and of these three vanished without trace. See:…

Read More Catastrophic Explosion at RAF Upwood

The village of Warboys has a fine parish church called St Mary Magdalene. In it there is a beautiful memorial window to the Pathfinders, commemorating the various PFF squadrons or training units which were based at Warboys and nearby Upwood.…

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Further to the previous post on the loss of the Emerson crew, there is also a new page containing biographical details of the two South Americans on the crew. All the crew were killed on 21 February 1944 after their…

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In two days time it will be the 76th anniversary of the loss of the Emerson crew. The crew suffered a horrific accident on 21 February 1944. Their aircraft, which had been severely damaged over the target, broke up in…

Read More The Loss of the Emerson Crew

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…

Read More Donald Bennett – Central Page & IWM Sound Recordings

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Read More Pathfinders in Civvie Street

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…

Read More Viscount Stansgate – The Oldest Flyer in Bomber Command?

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…

Read More Valentine’s Day Card

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…

Read More Bennett Memorial near Birthplace, Australia

Many aircrew were lost in crashes in England because of their determination to land a severely damaged aircraft. We will shortly be publishing important additions to the Emerson crew page, the crew all being lost in February 1944 when their…

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We receive a number of emails from people who are starting research about a relative who was in the RAF, possibly in the Pathfinders, but who have no information about dates or squadrons. By far the easiest place to start,…

Read More Commemorating the War Dead

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Read More Farewell to 2019

The information about the Channel Dash in April 1942 has reminded some readers of the attacks on the Tirpitz in 1942, in which aircrew who would one day become Pathfinders also took part. We have posted before about Donald Bennett’s…

Read More Bennett & the Tirpitz – Bennett’s Mae West

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Read More John Allen, Gunner, & The Channel Dash

The Kenyon crew all died on Christmas Eve 1944, just after take off from Graveley. As previously announced on this website, a local group are planning a permanent memorial near the site of the crash. Yesterday a simple but moving…

Read More Remembrance on Christmas Eve: Great Paxton, Cambridgeshire

This very simple, but extremely moving and quietly spectacular, ceremony took place at the Texel War Cemetery yesterday evening. Leslie Laver’s grave is on the far-left of the plot. The tribute from Leslie Laver’s mother, Jenny, reads: Although you’ve gone,…

Read More Remembrance on Christmas Eve: Texel, Netherlands

Before Wally Layne of the Fletcher crew became a Pathfinder, he served on 50 Squadron. His CO was the legendary Gus Walker, who would lose part of his arm in a bomb explosion whilst trying to ensure that nobody would…

Read More Gus Walker, Wally Layne & Xmas

Bill Phillips was stationed with 35 Squadron at Graveley, and amongst the wealth of material which is now preserved by his daughter is this menu from Christmas 1944. We will be featuring more on Bill next year, but in the…

Read More Christmas at Graveley, 75 Years Ago

The worst night in British aviation history for aircraft crashes occurred on this day, 76 years ago. On return from a bombing raid on Berlin, the RAF lost a large number of aircraft and men due to the thick fog…

Read More 76th Anniversary of Black Thursday

Ernest Deverill’s distinguished RAF career ended with a terrible crash at RAF Graveley in the early hours of 17 December 1943. All except one of the crew were killed. Parts of his aircraft, which caught fire, can be seen here…

Read More Fund-Raising For the Deverill Collection

After a catastrophic accident in which a full load of bombs was dropped on his aircraft, Frank Lloyd somehow managed to save the Lancaster and get all the crew safely home. The only crew member who did not get back…

Read More Frank Lloyd, 582 Squadron

The tattered (but now somewhat rejuvenated thanks to the BBC programme “The Repair Shop”) teddy bear known as Bobby Bear has now achieved national fame. It is a great pleasure to see this as he belonged to Joe Mack of…

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Donald Sinclair Margach was a navigator who, in 1943, served on 106 Squadron when it was commanded by Wing Commander Guy Gibson. Donald did not go with Gibson when he formed 617 Squadron, which in May 1943 carried out Operation…

Read More Donald Margach and Guy Gibson

For anyone following – on our sister site – the story of the Mosquito crew lost in Italy in April 1945, there is now also a page on Peter Chapman, a soldier, who was killed by the Italian fascists four…

Read More Update on Mosquito Graves in Italy

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Read More Mosquito Crew, Lost in Italy

Still on the subject of Latin mottos (yesterday’s being VIGILATE ET VIRTUTE, “Vigilance and Power”), what could be better than the motto of 405 Squadron: DUCIMUS – “We lead” – how appropriate for a Pathfinder squadron. Apart from its tragic…

Read More “DUCIMUS” – 405 Squadron

Vernon Smith was born in 1924 in Canterbury, Kent, the son of George and Flo, and the sixth of eleven boys. He became a rear gunner on Flash McCollah’s crew in 7 Squadron. The crew from L-R in the photograph…

Read More VIGILANTIA ET VIRTUTE

There is a very interesting new exhibition at the Science Museum on treating the wounded in wartime. This covers far more than the Second World War but there is a section on treating the terrible burns that some aircrew suffered.…

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The last two Christmases we have published a post in memory of the Kenyon crew who died on Christmas Eve just after take-off from RAF Graveley – see: Kenyon Crew, Christmas Eve 1944. A local group are now fund-raising for a…

Read More Kenyon Crash Site Memorial

We recently have had a few enquiries about why this memorial is not yet in place at the NMA. John Clifford advised us a few weeks back: The main issue is moving 5 ton of marble from Peterborough to the…

Read More Pathfinder Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum

In May we published a post about Bobby Bear, the childhood toy of Joe Mack who survived a horrendous crash on Black Thursday, 16/17 December 1943. This post has since been updated with more information about wound stripes: Wound Stripes and…

Read More Bobby Bear – Ready for Another 75 Years

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Read More A Family’s Pride: George Granger’s DFM

Two years ago, the RAF Pathfinders Archive bought the Deverill Collection to ensure that it would not go into private hands and possibly end up being sold off in separate parts. Since the Archive acquired the Deverill Collection, it has…

Read More Deverill Collection: Fund-Raising

The Caterpillar Club, for aircrew whose lives had been saved by a silken Irvin parachute, is well-known. Less so is the Goldfish Club, for aircrew whose lives had been saved by an emergency dinghy. Few of the aircrew who ditched in…

Read More Robert Butler wins a Goldfish

Although this whole site is intrinsically about the Air War, as part of the reorganisation of the website we have collected a number of topics on one page for easy reference. These include such subjects as Animals in the Air…

Read More The Air War

Still on the subject of Mosquito crews, Alistair Wood’s logbook contains details of the training course he undertook at Warboys under the auspices of 1655 MTU, (Mosquito Training Unit). It was here that he teamed up with Flying Officer Hicklin,…

Read More Mosquito Training at Warboys

We have published the second part of Alistair’s story tonight, which picks up from when he completed his first tour with Main Force and concludes with his Pathfinder tour on Mosquitoes, then VE Day,  and the Cook’s Tour which he…

Read More Alistair Wood’s Story – Part Two

Like many Pathfinder aircrew, Alistair Wood had flown on operations with Main Force before he joined the Pathfinders. His crew, piloted by Wilfred Elder, a New Zealander, had some particularly dramatic and dangerous times on their first tour. See the…

Read More Alistair Wood’s Story – Part One

Alistair McKenzie Wood was a Pathfinder navigator who had first completed a somewhat dramatic tour on Halifaxes with 76 Squadron of Main Force before retraining for Pathfinder duties in a Mosquito. See the first of several pages linked to our…

Read More 105 Squadron Mosquito Navigator, Alistair Wood

We have received two messages in the last day about typos on the website, and this seems as good a time as any to say that we welcome any such feed-back in the interests of historical accuracy. With our slender…

Read More Website Typos, Omissions, Errors …

All Pathfinder squadrons carried out a constant programme of on-the-job training. The squadrons varied greatly in how much detail they gave in the ORBs about the programmes, which included exercises such as Fighter Affiliation and Y Bombing Runs. See this…

Read More Training on the Squadron

As part of the reorganisation of the website, we have grouped all the pages about Pathfinder training in one place, so that topics can be scanned through quickly. All future posts about Pathfinder training or training accidents will be added…

Read More Pathfinder Training & Training Accidents

Wing Commander Dixie Dean, the commanding officer of the Pathfinders Navigation Training Unit, was so well thought of that in February 1944 he received a letter of the highest praise from Air Commodore Donald Bennett, AOC of the Path Finder…

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As part of the reorganisation of the website, we have grouped all the Mosquito pages on one page – Mosquito Squadrons, Crews, and Related Topics – so that topics can be scanned through quickly. All new posts about Mosquito squadrons and crews…

Read More Mosquito Topics Grouped in One Place

A training unit Mosquito was struck by lightning on 31 December 1944. The crew baled out safely but the aircraft was lost. The restored undercarriage and other parts can now be seen in a dramatic display at RAF Wyton –…

Read More NTU Mosquito Struck by Lightning

The beautiful image on this post is of the grave of Ray Hutchings Logan, a Mosquito navigator, who lost his life on 28 May 1943 when the Mosquito he was flying in was hit by a German nightfighter and exploded…

Read More Two Canadians & a Mosquito of 109 Squadron

Although Pathfinder Mosquito crews did not have the same attrition rate as those flying in Lancasters and Halifaxes, their work was still highly dangerous. The light-weight Mosquito aircraft was liable to break up in an accident, as happened on 4…

Read More Fatal Mosquito Crash at Wyton, 4 November 1944

It seldom happens that a photograph with unknown aircrew in it gets even partially identified, but amazingly this has happened with the photograph we featured almost exactly one year ago of an unknown Pathfinder crew at a wedding. The man…

Read More 35 Squadron Crew at Wedding

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Read More Barr Crew, 7 Squadron

We would like to share this wonderful cover for the RAF journal Air Mail, which was published in October 1948. It makes an antidote to the tragic stories often told on this website.

Working on the post yesterday on the condolence letter to Jespersen’s father reminded me of another condolence letter, this time written on the Pathfinder station at Oakington in December 1943. It concerned a friend, Bob Butler, who was stationed with…

Read More Condolence Letter from Pathfinder Gunner, 7 Squadron

From an unknown official to Jespersen’s father: The Air Force refers to your visit some time back and it is with sorrow that we have to confirm that your son, Lt. Finn Varde Jespersen, was shot down during the night of…

Read More Jespersen Condolence Letter

A new method of cataloguing has been adopted which it is hoped will finally clear the log-jam of names and crews we would like to see online. Pages will be added as and when they are completed. Amongst the first…

Read More A Bit More about the Catalogue

Jack Blair was a highly dedicated officer who flew more than his fair share of ops. In 1943, he was a member of John Sauvage‘s crew on 97 Squadron; in 1944, having moved to 156 Squadron, he was flying with…

Read More Jack Blair, Ward and Sauvage Crews

We are starting a new method of cataloguing the Archive, and in time the website will be reorganised to reflect this, but time being short and hands being few it is going to take a while. The first page from…

Read More Cataloguing the Archive

This fabulous radio-controlled model Lancaster may make you smile, standing so proudly in front of the tomato plants, though she is sure to be a very  different beast when she flies. There is a tragic background story to this icon…

Read More Model Lancaster, O-Orange

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Read More Colin Drew and Sugarpuss

This rather fabulous photograph (it’s a great pity about the poor condition) shows what is thought to possibly be the 83 Squadron crew of Colin Drew (third from right, and possibly a navigator) standing next to their gloriously decorated Lancaster…

Read More Lancaster Art: Sugarpuss, 83 Squadron

Earlier this year we received a very nice colourised version of the lovely photograph of Hugh Baker, standing outside a rather grand house in Hastings in 1942. Due to much dedicated local sleuthing, the actual house has been identified. See…

Read More Update to Baker & Stevens, 97 Squadron

Ernest Deverill, the much-decorated 97 Squadron pilot killed on Black Thursday, whose medals, logbooks and other memorabilia are on display at RAF Wyton, is buried at St Mary’s, Docking, Norfolk. The epitaph on his gravestone comes from the same hymn…

Read More O Valiant Hearts

More on Joan Beech’s book One Waaf’s War and the pages which describe 105 Squadron. Here is a priceless anecdote about a pilot named Jimmy Mills whose navigation skills when driving a car seem to have been slightly off-whack. Joan…

Read More Joan Beech and 105 Squadron

In May 1941 105 Squadron was flying Blenheims and was based at Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. The war graves in this photograph on our sister site are for two members of the squadron who were killed that month in Norway. In…

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News about three films on the Air War, the first with direct Pathfinder connections, the other two concerning other interesting aspects of the Allied bombing campaign. Firstly, the docudrama Hero which has recently been released. Filmed on a shoestring budget, it has no…

Read More Films on the Air War

To add to the previous information on Finn Varde Jespersen, the Royal Norwegian Air Force pilot who was lost with all his crew on D-Day when flying with 97 Squadron, we have a very interesting photograph of him and fellow…

Read More Update: Finn Varde Jespersen, D-Day

We have been sent this lovely photograph of the D-Day commemorations for the Jespersen crew, who were shot down and all killed on 6 June 1944. The memorial is north-west of Osmanville in the churchyard of St Clements. With thanks…

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97 Squadron lost its charismatic Commanding Officer, Wing Commander Carter, on D-Day. It also lost the Jespersen crew, most of whom were Norwegians. Whilst there were other Pathfinder casualties on that day, for me these two crews are amongst the…

Read More 97 Squadron Losses on D-Day

The Thackway crew crash, referred to in our post just now (28 May 2019), has a tiny echo in the uniform of the moth-eaten bear, known as Bobby Bear, who until recently was on display in the Black Thursday cabinet…

Read More Wound Stripes and the Thackway Crash

We have been very interested to find out that there is a Millennium Walk which allows walkers to get close to the site of the Thackway crew’s crash (on what was known as The Hay) on 17 December 1943. http://www.hardwick-cambs.org.uk/footpaths-walks/…

Read More Thackway Crew Plane Crash

The beautiful church at Great Gransden, which was the local church for 405 Squadron at Gransden Lodge, contains a splendid window to the memory of the bomber boys, many of whom were Canadians. The window was dedicated thirty years ago,…

Read More Re-dedication at Great Gransden

John was buried in a suitably dramatic coffin. We were privileged to have been sent a preview of the design some days beforehand, but these photographs show show the dramatic reality of the actual coffin, enhanced by the visual impact…

Read More A Final Note on John Sauvage’s Funeral

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Read More Eulogy at John Sauvage’s Funeral

Further to the previous post and the Bryan de Grineau drawings in The Illustrated London News, 26 February 1944, it has suddenly become clear that the drawings are closely related to the Press photograph of Harris using a stereopticon which…

Read More Harris’s Office, Bomber Command HQ

In February we featured Captain Bryan de Grineau’s drawing of Lancaster gunners ‘Hotting-up‘ which was published in The Illustrated London News in December 1943. Now here is another fascinating Bryan de Grineau drawing, also from The Illustrated London News, of the…

Read More Photography in the Air War

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Read More John Sauvage’s Funeral

Here is a message from John Clifford, one of our Trustees and Senior Curator at the Pathfinder Collection at Wyton: Dear All It is with deep regret that due to circumstances outside my control or influence, the dedication for the…

Read More PFF Memorial Dedication Postponed

Earlier this week we posted a page on H2S, a radar aid used extensively by the Pathfinders. Two connected pages concern the wartime death, in a Halifax crash, of Alan Blumlein, the inventor of H2S, and what was done after…

Read More The PFF & H2S, continued

In January we posted on Bennett and the Russians, not realising that there is a rather wonderful story in Bennett’s autobiography Pathfinder to which we should have drawn attention. So here it is at last. It is presumably the explanation why Bennett was…

Read More Bennett & The Russians, continued

We have received the very sad news this morning that John Sauvage, who so recently celebrated his 100th birthday, died yesterday after a short illness. We will be giving further details of John’s career in the RAF later this week.…

Read More John Sauvage, 97 Squadron

We have recently been sent a number of very interesting photographs of the Montgomery crew (97 Squadron) which we will display on the website shortly. However, one particular detail on one of the photographs immediately jumped out in view of…

Read More La Spezia, 13 April ’43, Carrier Pigeons

This week we are publishing three connected pages on the Pathfinders and H2S, starting with one about H2S itself. H2S produced a map of the ground over which the aircraft using the equipment was flying. The highly accurate navigation and…

Read More The PFF & H2S, Radar Aid

The last post on carrier pigeons and Bomber Command has proved highly popular. That gives the perfect excuse to share a favourite magazine cover from November 1942, entitled ‘A Lancaster is Going to Germany’. The text in the centre of…

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It’s amazing how lots of little things relating to the same subject come together at the same time when one is researching. In February we published a page which gave a post and a page on Lancaster Gunners “Hotting Up”.…

Read More Carrier Pigeons in the Bomber War

People sometimes confuse the Pathfinder Collection at RAF Wyton, Heritage Centre, and ourselves, the RAF Pathfinders Archive, which is understandable given the similarity of the names. Just to clarify: while the Pathfinder Collection and ourselves share digital material, and some…

Read More Pathfinder Collection, Wyton

Pathfinder and Main Force Lancasters had identifying squadron codes and individual letters which made them easy to recognise in the air. For example, OF-D stood for 97 Squadron aircraft D-Dog (D-Donald at a later date). For a list of PFF…

Read More Aircraft Codes & Letters

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Read More Path Finder Force Memorial, NMA

We have recently been working with the logbook, prisoner of war log, and other papers of John Henry O’Neill, a bomb aimer with 405 Squadron, who was shot down on 3 June 1944. There is a great deal of interest…

Read More The Last Lancaster

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Read More 7 Squadron Pilot & Bomb Aimer, Reunited

Before flying on ops, gunners got into their electrically heated flying suits, and it seems this process required quite a bit of help. A recent acquisition for the Archive is an Illustrated London News drawing which shows a Nissen hut…

Read More Lancaster Gunners ‘Hotting-up’

During the massive clear-up of the office, this amusing little document turned up in a stray copy of EVIDENCE IN CAMERA, the wartime RAF photographic publication. The document is Transport Command, not Bomber Command, but whoever drew up the spoof…

Read More Pilot Officer Prune, Again

The explanation for the mix-up about nationality is now explained. As John’s son-in-law explains: The Seychelles used to be French , but we won them as “spoils of war “ at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The locals speak…

Read More John Sauvage, a P.S.

John Sauvage, one of 97 Squadron’s most distinguished pilots, is 100 years old this weekend. The main image on this post is of John with his crew discussing arcane matters next to their Lancaster at Bourn in the summer of…

Read More John Sauvage, 100th Birthday

The link wasn’t working on yesterday’s post and it now is. However, here it is again. TEE EMM & PILOT OFFICER PRUNE. TEE EMM, as previously stated, was the technical manual for the RAF, which contained a huge number of…

Read More TEE EMM

Further to yesterday’s post, we have now included a page on TEE EMM, with two rather wonderful cartoons of Pilot Officer Prune, one with his dog. As we said yesterday, we were checking up on the identity of the man…

Read More More on Pilot Officer Prune

Pilot Officer Prune was a fictional character, hapless and inefficient, who mainly starred in TEE EMM, the technical memorandum which was circulated in the Air Force. It is the dog who is being called Pilot Officer Prune in the magazine…

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Charles Owen, who flew with 97 Squadron during the war and was one of the crews on Black Thursday, went on to have a distinguished career in the RAF. Here is some footage posted by AP Archive of when he…

Read More Charles Owen in the late 1950s

And here is another little fact about Bennett which I have been sitting on for some months. It follows on our post on 26 August last year about how Bennett was shot down whilst trying to sink the Tirpitz. He…

Read More Bennett and the Sinking of the Tirpitz

Here are two curious little facts about Bennett and the Russians that I came across this afternoon whilst having a massive tidy-up in the office. Bennett was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky by the Russians, presumably just after the war…

Read More Bennett and the Russians

Tonight is the 75th anniversary of the death of Leslie Laver, ‘Les’, who was my father’s rear gunner before the Thackway crew was broken up by death and injury. He died with most of the Steven crew on the Dutch…

Read More Leslie Laver and His Mother

Ken Newman (second from right) who flew with the Steven crew and missed their fatal flight on 14 January 1944 due to a bad skin complaint, will be 98 years old this coming Sunday. Ironically, that is only four days…

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Here is a fascinating 2016 article on the use of Benzedrine, colloquially known as Wakey-Wakey pills, by the RAF. As most people who follow this website will know, operational bomber aircrew sometimes used such pills to keep themselves awake during…

Read More Wakey-Wakey Pills

We were sent the link to this film by Philip Stevens a couple of days ago. Although it seems to have been released 5 years ago, none of us had seen it before. It is short (12 minutes) but very…

Read More Film: Lancaster

It has been a very successful first year for the RAF Pathfinders Archive, and we would like to thank everyone who has contributed in any way, from sending Pathfinder material to making donations to buying our publications to supporting us…

Read More Farewell to 2018

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On 24 December in the late afternoon, volunteers from the Aeronautical and War Museum on Texel, the Netherlands, placed candles on all the war graves at Den Burg Cemetery. This enchanting and poignant ceremony of Remembrance was led by Bram…

Read More Den Burg Cemetery, 24 December

RAF Hospital Ely, Christmas Day 1943, with patients, some of whom were probably survivors of the Black Thursday crashes. The lady at the back (to the right of the gentleman in the white shirt) is the wife of James Benbow,…

Read More Happy Christmas, One and All

Last Christmas Eve, we included details of the Kenyon crew from 35 Squadron at Graveley, who crashed just after take-off on 24 December 1944. Very recently, we were sent a detailed dossier on the crash compiled by Paul Herod. Here…

Read More Kenyon Crew, Christmas Eve 1944

The loss cards for the seven 97 Squadron Lancasters which were wrecked – five in crashes and two abandoned when their crews baled out – were clearly filled in as a batch because they have the same phrasing on each…

Read More And One Last Footnote on Black Thursday …

We would like to identify the crew members whose photograph appeared in yesterday’s post, there not being time to do so yesterday. They were from the Kirkwood crew, who sadly were all killed when their aircraft crashed close to the…

Read More Kirkwood Crew, Black Thursday

Many grateful thanks to John Clifford who organised the revamp to the Black Thursday exhibition at the Pathfinder Collection, Heritage Centre, RAF Wyton, pictures of which can be seen here.  John also showed us round yesterday. He was on top…

Read More Black Thursday Exhibition, RAF Wyton

It was exceptionally good weather yesterday morning for the service of Remembrance for Black Thursday, 16/17 December 1943, and for the laying of the wreath and flowers at the memorial afterwards. The very fine memorial window to the Pathfinders formed…

Read More Black Thursday Commemorations, RAF Wyton

On the way to RAF Wyton for the Commemorations of 16/17 December 1943. Will be posting tomorrow on the new exhibition and on the day’s events.  JENNIE MACK GRAY

In December 1943, the only real facilities available to land in weather conditions of extremely poor visibility were FIDO and a system known as SBA (Standard Beam Approach). FIDO, the Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation, was at that time only…

Read More Black Thursday Week: FIDO

There must have been many quiet acts of courage at the scenes of the crashes on the night of 16/17 December 1943. Most would have gone unnoticed except by those present, and we are not aware of any other medals…

Read More Black Thursday Week: “Prompt and Courageous Action”

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Read More Black Thursday Week: The Canadians

This tattered object is Bobby Bear. He can perhaps be seen as an emblem of the few who survived the crashes on Black Thursday but were seriously injured. He was the childhood toy of Joe Mack, of the Thackway crew,…

Read More Black Thursday Week: Bobby Bear & Joe Mack

Charles Owen kept an operations diary, and one of the most interesting pages is the one he wrote for Black Thursday. This particular entry has often been quoted but there is nothing like seeing the actual handwriting. One of the…

Read More Black Thursday Week: Charles Owen Diary Entry

For the next seven days we will be posting about aspects of the terrible night of 16/17 December 1943. There will be a commemoration at RAF Wyton next Sunday, details of which have already been given on this website, but…

Read More 75th Anniversary Black Thursday – Commemorations

Purely by coincidence, this post also concerns the crew of a pilot named Baker. Valentine Baker and his crew were lost on 11 August 1943. Those who were killed are buried at Durnbach Cemetery in Bavaria (Bayern), see the beautiful…

Read More William Johnson Vaughan, Valentine Baker Crew

Hugh Baker was killed on 30 July 1944 when his aircraft was shot down over France. Of the unusually large crew of nine, only three survived, including Squadron Leader Peter Stevens, who was 97 Squadron’s Navigation Officer. At this stage…

Read More Hugh Baker and Peter Stevens, 97 Squadron

We have added a page to clarify what is a frequently misunderstood situation, how some Pathfinder squadrons could continue to act as pathfinders even though they had been transferred to 5 Group. Pathfinder Squadrons in 5 Group The decision by Harris,…

Read More Harris transfers Pathfinder Squadrons to 5 Group

The featured image on this post is of battle damage to Y-York (or Y-Yorker), Ernest Deverill’s aircraft on the Augsburg operation of 17 April 1942. Y-York took a terrible pounding. The laconic report on the aircraft’s battle damage given by…

Read More Ernest Deverill – Y-York after Augsburg

The night of 16/17 December 1943, afterwards known as Black Thursday, saw the worst RAF bad weather losses of the whole war. A heavy fog caused severe problems for home-coming aircraft and there were multiple fatal crashes. Amongst the dead…

Read More Commemorative Publications, 75th Anniversary of Black Thursday

Brought round by my neighbour Susan this morning – her great-uncle Lawrence Williamson was first in the Lancers and then in the RFC as an Observer (the ‘O’ on his tunic can be clearly seen). He survived the war and…

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Cecil Macgown, the Group Medical Officer of the Pathfinders, usually known as Doc Macgown or ‘Mac’, was in the RFC during the First World War. In one momentous letter to his sister in 1917, he wrote: “Still alive and getting…

Read More Cecil Macgown and the Royal Flying Corps

Re: our commemorative post on the RFC and the RAF in WWII, we are grateful to have been reminded about the First World War contribution made by the men of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). The RNAS was under…

Read More The Royal Naval Air Service

With Remembrance Sunday tomorrow falling exactly on the 100th Anniversary of the end of the First World War, we remember all the pioneering airmen of those days of conflict, and those who followed after them in the Second World War.…

Read More Remembering the RFC and the RAF, WWI

Arrangements are firming up for the Black Thursday 75th Anniversary commemorations at the Pathfinder Collection, RAF Wyton. There will be a considerable change to the existing display and some new storyboards. In addition, we are delighted that Charles Owen’s family…

Read More 75th Anniversary of Black Thursday, at Wyton

In Norman McIntyre’s photo album there is a photograph of him with three of Australian friends in the RAAF. Photographs of the graves of Vince, Jeff, and Norm have been posted on the WAR GRAVES AND REMEMBRANCE website: Four Australian…

Read More Australian Friends in Norman McIntyre’s Album

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Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Le Creusot op, one of the most daring of the war, when 94 Lancasters flew in formation across France to wreck the Schneider arms plant 170 miles south-east of Paris. One of those flying…

Read More Deverill and Le Creusot Op, 17 October 1942

Jennie Mack Gray, our Chairperson, who began the Pathfinders Archive website with 97 Squadron in 2001 and has placed all her material on permanent loan with the Archive, now has a new website, PER ARDUA, which will be covering various…

Read More Per Ardua

The Flying Control buildings on PFF airfields were at the centre of numerous dramatic incidents and tragedies. It is good to read of one potentially very dangerous episode at RAF Graveley which ended happily, not to say amusingly, for all…

Read More 35 Squadron, the Erk and the UXB

There will be a gathering at RAF Wyton on 16 December this year to honour the 75th anniversary of Black Thursday, and of the death of Ernest Alfred Deverill and so many other fine aircrew. The exact details and timings…

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Research often turns up the strangest connections. I was looking for information about Frederick Denzil James Thompson, a PFF Navigator with DFC and Bar, who was the son of Churchill’s bodyguard, Detective Inspector Walter Henry Thompson.  Thompson senior had a…

Read More Link Between 7 Squadron and Churchill

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Following our recent post on the Mosquito film footage from August 1944, we would like to add that it was donated to the People’s Mosquito by the family of Brian Harris DFC and was shot while Brian was serving with 627…

Read More The People’s Mosquito – Additional Details

After a very successful Mosquito Week, we are saying goodbye to the Wooden Wonder for a few days and looking at some other topics. Our farewell photograph comes from 627 Squadron: 627 Squadron: Aircrew and Ground Crew We will, of course,…

Read More Mosquito Week ends

To refine their accuracy in marking the targets, the Pathfinders used sophisticated navigational aids, one of which was Oboe. 109 Squadron, flying Oboe-fitted Mosquitoes, were often leaders in the bombing raids, and they had a number of star aircrew, including…

Read More Mosquito Squadrons & Oboe

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Read More RAF Accident Report, Parlato and Orchard

In our two posts on Monday and Tuesday of this week, we gave some details of Sid Parlato’s time as a Mosquito pilot in the Pathfinders. Since then we have been contacted by Parlato’s great-nephew, Pete McGraw, himself ex-Air Force…

Read More Sid Parlato, Mosquito Pilot

Here is something well worthy of attention during our Mosquito Week. The People’s Mosquito has a simple vision (and a great many highly qualified and enthusiastic people to back it up): to not only return a de Havilland Mosquito to…

Read More The People’s Mosquito

Further to yesterday’s post, which included photos of Dai Thomas and Sid Parlato, here is a page in Dai Thomas’s logbook, made when he and his pilot, Sid Parlato, were at 139 Squadron at Wyton during September to November 1943.…

Read More Mossie Week, Continued

We’re having a Mosquito week this week, inspired by the wonderful project The People’s Mosquito which we will  be giving more details of in the coming days. Below: article in an American paper, the Evening Post, 3 March 1945. Dai…

Read More Mosquito Week

From ‘Beating the Odds: Superstition and Human Agency in RAF Bomber Command, 1942-1945 by S P MacKenzie, WAR IN HISTORY, 2015. Mackenzie makes the case that Bomber Command superstitions and mascots kept crews flying when the odds were stacked against…

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Read More Bennett and the Tirpitz

Donald Barker, a navigator, has been identified in the group photograph of 582 Squadron taken on VE Day. This is highly unusual as the identities of the men in these wonderful squadron photographs tends to be lost over the years…

Read More Donald Schofield Barker, 582 Squadron

One of the reasons why Bennett may have been late in sending the message about the first anniversary of the Pathfinders (see previous post) is that he may have been preoccupied with the Peenemünde raid, which took place around the…

Read More The Peenemünde Raid , 17/18 August 1943

15 August will be the 76th anniversary of the creation of the Path Finder Force in 1942. In 1943, the year after the Force was formed, slightly belatedly Bennett sent a Special Order of the Day to his squadrons, saying…

Read More First Anniversary of the PFF, 1943

The Path Finder Force had a training unit, the NTU, to teach the highly specialised Pathfinder techniques before the crews moved on to their Pathfinder squadrons. For most of its existence, the Unit was based at Warboys, also home for…

Read More PFF Navigation Training Unit, NTU

Further to our post yesterday about Billy Colson, on Black Thursday he had taken the place of Ivor Glyn Stephens as bomb aimer on the Mackenzie crew. Stephens would survive the war, as would Keith Kirby, who had been in…

Read More 75th Anniversary Black Thursday – Kirby & Stephens

Over the course of the next four months we will be making a pictorial list with short description for the aircrew flying on Black Thursday, 16/17 December 1943. We begin with Billy Colson of the Mackenzie crew, who lost his…

Read More 75th Anniversary Black Thursday – Billy Colson

“The experts on the Air Staff who turned down the Mosquito as a type in the early days might be interested in the argument which subsequently became current to the effect that one Mosquito was worth seven Lancasters. For those…

Read More Bennett on the PFF Mosquitoes

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Read More Black Thursday – 75th Anniversary

We have been sent some sensational photographs of a Mosquito that made it safely to the ground in what can only be described as a tattered condition. To see these pictures and possibly answer the great mystery about what happened,…

Read More How Did this Mosquito Land?

Nothing to do with the Pathfinders but also about a flying dog, this time in the wartime USAAF, which raises an interesting point connected to today’s earlier post on Pathfinder Pets If these dogs were flying with their owners, how…

Read More Paradog, Salvo

Further to our posts way back in March about Pathfinder pets, we have been given permission to use a much better image of Clayton’s crew with Clayton’s spaniel. The man holding the dog is Tich Palmer, who later went on…

Read More Pathfinder Pets & Tich Palmer

A more detailed photograph of James White and Harry Page, together Wally Layne (with thanks to David Layne). This has been added to the Fletcher crew page, and also a link has been set up between Jack Beesley and the…

Read More Fletcher Crew – Further Update

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Read More 54 Course, Mid-Upper Gunners, 16.4.43

It’s always wonderful to see the men who maintained the Pathfinder aircraft, and this is a particularly nice photograph of James Frances Henry with other ground crew in front of a Met Flight mosquito. James was with 1409 Met Flight from…

Read More 1409 Met Flight – James Henry, Engine Fitter

The lure of flying for people growing up in the 1920s and 1930s is hard to appreciate now when commercial flying is so commonplace. Then, flying was ultra-modern and incredibly glamorous, and airshows (as in the photograph above) fed this…

Read More The Lure of Flying

Bad weather killed many experienced crews, including those who were only carrying out training duties. Icing could be particularly lethal. Today we have added a page about certain aspects of ICING as it affected aircrew, sometimes lethally. A reporting system…

Read More Bomber Command’s Greatest Enemy – the Weather

The uniform of George Walker (usually known in the RAF as Johnny after the whisky) was recently donated to the Pathfinder Collection at RAF Wyton by his son, Mick. They also have a copy of George’s logbook. George remained in…

Read More George (Johnny) Walker & the Dailey Crew

Ruined or decayed wartime airfields are one of the most evocative sights in Britain.  Inevitably many of them are now being built over. These pictures of Little Staughton, taken by Matt Barker in the summer of 2017, are full of…

Read More Little Staughton

In 1943, E Colston Shepherd, the editor of The Aeroplane, interviewed Harris both at his office and at home, the latter being Springfields at Great Kingshill, close to High Wycombe’s Bomber Command HQ. In the subsequent article in the Picture…

Read More Bomber Harris – Interview 1943

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Read More Bomber Harris – More on Yesterday’s Post

Continuing our occasional series on the RAF and Bomber Command leadership, here is a priceless story told by Harris about the London Blitz in 1940. The sentry whom he describes surely has a direct lineage to Shakespeare’s clowns. During the…

Read More Bomber Harris and the London Blitz

Portrait of Dennis Walters (possibly of 635 Squadron) This sketch is thought to be by a German prisoner of war, Kurt Kranz, who was conscripted for German Military service in 1940, and served in Norway and Finland. He died in 1997, aged…

Read More Drawing by German POW of PFF Airman

Peter Drane was a 97 Squadron Lancaster pilot who, in a most unusual move, transferred to a Mosquito squadron, 139 Squadron, after completing his tour in August 1944. His navigator did not want to transfer with him, and Peter crewed…

Read More Peter Drane, from Lancaster to Mosquito

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Read More Deverill Collection and Black Thursday Anniversary

As part of our emphasis on the wider picture and on the wartime context in which the Pathfinders operated, we are giving details of how the RAF was organised in wartime and how it fitted into the structure of government.…

Read More Portal, Chief of Air Staff, & RAF Organisation

More on the extremely tattered scrapbook in the Archive. Whilst looking through it, we discovered this gem, which we regret not having found two weeks ago in time for the 100th birthday of the RAF. Once again the anonymous aircraft…

Read More Scrapbook, 26th Birthday of RAF (1944)

Further to our post this afternoon about TALES FROM THE ARCHIVE No.7, it seems a shame not to publish part of a page from the tattered old scrapbook in the Archive which is mentioned in No.7. The scrapbook page has…

Read More Additional Page from Archive Scrapbook

Further to our previous post, we are now publishing the seventh issue of TALES FROM THE ARCHIVE, which is on the RAF’s PR war, and how the Augsburg raid was covered in the Press. It also shows how the existence…

Read More Bomber Command, Publicity, & the Augsburg Raid

Ernest Alfred Deverill, who was lost due to fog on Black Thursday, 16/17 December 1943, survived many hazardous operations in his time but perhaps none more so than the Augsburg raid on 17 April 1942. Tales from the Archive this…

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Read More Update on Frank Smith & Patch the Dog

Tales from the Archive, 6 goes back to the very beginning of the Path Finder Force, at a time when it was being proposed under the name the Target Finding Force. Harris’ pugnacious opposition to the idea only ended when…

Read More Harris v. Portal, the Formation of the Path Finder Force, 1942

Our sister website, WWII Missing Research, War Graves, & Remembrance, has published an account of how the London Press were used to identify one particular Main Force crew, who had been buried as unknowns in France in September 1942. See…

Read More RAF Missing Research

Further to our post yesterday, I remembered that somewhere in the Archive there was another 97 Squadron dog. And here he is, a spaniel who belonged to the pilot Peter Clayton, DSO, DFC. Unfortunately the copy of the photo we…

Read More Pathfinder pets – Clayton and his spaniel

Update on Frank Smith & Patch the Dog The most famous Bomber Command pet is Guy Gibson’s Labrador, Nigger. However, other dogs appear in photos of Bomber Command aircrew, some of whom traveled with their owners on bombing sorties. Frank…

Read More Frank Smith & Patch the Dog

1409 Met Flight’s primary duty was to ascertain the weather conditions over the targets before a bombing operation. They also checked weather conditions over the British Isles, which were critical to the safe take-off and landing of operational aircraft. This…

Read More 1409 Met Flight

Ralph Cecil Saunders, a navigator with 97 Squadron, was one of only two survivors of the crew of Kenneth Painter, which was shot down on 20 October 1943. The other survivor was Tom Andrews, the wireless operator. Saunders spent the…

Read More Soviet PoW Gift

The RAF are currently completely revamping their whole website and, as part of this, the old Pathfinder Collection page is no longer accessible. Whilst we are more than happy to pass on contact details, you may wish to follow the…

Read More Visiting the Pathfinder Collection at RAF Wyton

I am sure it will have escaped few people’s notice that it is the 100th anniversary of the RAF on 1 April. Whilst this is a momentous date historically speaking, the fabulous cake above says it all in a deliciously…

Read More 100th Anniversary of the RAF

On a bitterly cold day (the last day of February, when the weather really ought to know better and be acting vaguely like spring), here is a heart-warming story of two members of a 7 Squadron crew, John Ottewell and…

Read More John and Charlie meet up again, 73 years on

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The PFF squadron pages are gradually being reorganised so that each squadron has its own page, or group of pages. 156 Squadron is one of the first to be set up, and of the two current pages one is on…

Read More Lionel Williams & His Daughter

Tales from the Archive this month is on Wally Layne’s wartime log. Wally was a member of a 97 Squadron crew which was shot down over Germany in September 1943, and he spent the rest of the war as a…

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This image is from the notebook of John Conybeare Landon (see The Stories Behind the Gravestones on our sister site: RAF MISSING RESEARCH, WAR GRAVES,  & REMEMBRANCE). Landon trained as a navigator in Canada and subsequently became a bomb aimer…

Read More Navigation Notes

Our sister site, RAF MISSING RESEARCH, WAR GRAVES, & REMEMBRANCE, has published a page on The Air Ministry Casualty Branch in Oxford Street, which dealt with many thousands of aircrew casualties – killed, missing, and wounded – during the years that…

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From time to time we include details of the air war which form the background to who the Pathfinders were and what they did. This particular oddity is such fun that we cannot resist it. It comes from RAF Station…

Read More “You Lucky People” Certificate, 1945

Referring back to one of our December posts Christmas Eve 1944, 35 Squadron on the loss of the Kenyon crew, we recently had an email from R Maddox who wrote: Just to add to information about the Christmas Eve 1944 crash…

Read More More on Christmas Eve Post

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We are planning to do a small online exhibition on aircrew training overseas, but here is one sneak preview item, a rare survival of what must have been many hundreds of such telegrams, sent home by proud young men who…

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Some Pathfinders just stand out – whether from their striking personality, unusual looks, outstanding bravery, or the dramatic incidents which occurred whilst they were flying with the PFF. One such is Frank McEgan, to whom the latest issue of TALES…

Read More TALES FROM THE ARCHIVE: Frank McEgan

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Read More Christmas Eve 1944, 35 Squadron

This evening, 74 years ago, saw the death of all eight members of the Brill crew when their Lancaster was hit by flak and exploded over Berlin. Tales from the Archive No. 3 is dedicated to the extraordinary story of…

Read More Tales from the Archive – Black Thursday Anniversary

Just in time for the 74th anniversary of Black Thursday, which begins tomorrow, the senior curator at the Pathfinder Collection, RAF Wyton, has created a display around the Deverill collection and other very evocative mementos of the night of 16/17…

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As there has recently been so much information centred on Coningsby and 54 Base, a page has been set up and some photographs have been added of the briefing room for 97 Squadron at that station. The Coningsby page is…

Read More Coningsby, 1944

Another copy of TALES FROM THE ARCHIVE is now available, which has details of the Reid crew, the loss of Wing Commander Edward Leach Porter on the Stettin Bay Mining Operation, and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service. Tales from…

Read More Tales from the Archive – No 2

A little later than intended, the first TALES FROM THE ARCHIVE is published this afternoon. It contains more information about Norman Edmondson, mentioned in the last post, together with details of two interesting oddities in the Archive. There are also details…

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Read More Norman Thomson Edmondson, 156 Sqd

We very seldom hear about what life was like for children on Bomber Command or PFF bases. For a wonderful child’s eye view of life on a Pathfinder base, including a fabulous anecdote about the legendary Mahaddie at a party…

Read More Child’s Eye View of the Pathfinders

The purchase of the DEVERILL collection was finally completed last week. This is the first major acquisition of the RAF Pathfinders Archive. It was very important to buy the collection not only because of Deverill’s iconic status in Bomber Command, 97…

Read More Acquisition of Deverill Collection

We have two unusual requests for information to post this morning. One concerns Jurik Herman, a Polish airman who flew as a Navigator in a Mosquito squadron. The other concerns an unknown airman whom we hope someone can identify, his…

Read More Two Requests for Information

We have just acquired two Second World War escape maps, one of Germany into Poland, with the tip of Italy on the reverse, and one which is of Italy. They are now at the Pathfinder Collection at RAF Wyton, and…

Read More Acquisition: Escape Maps

There are some 500 aircrew on whom we hold information. The Master List appears for the first time today, Remembrance Sunday 2017, on the Catalogue page. This is the beginning of the projected database and it is very much a…

Read More Master List of Aircrew

It has now been decided that due to the ever-increasing volume of data, we are going to have to adopt a new policy for the website and change the old established policy of having a separate crew page for each…

Read More Crew Pages on the Website – Change of Policy

Jan Nieuwenhuis has just published the new release of his database on Allied aircraft losses in the Netherlands and the North Sea, the sea being where so many crews were lost on their way to or from Europe. The link…

Read More Aircrew Losses in the Netherlands and the North Sea – updated database

The website is currently being updated to a more modern and easy-to-follow format. Please excuse any oddities you may come across – everything will be ironed out as soon as possible.

The Steven crew are commemorated on the Dutch island of Texel, where their aircraft was shot down. Texel has some very dedicated researchers, who have spent years ensuring that the memory of Allied aircrew is honoured.

The Steven crew are one of the most important on this website, and Heavens knows why it took so long to transfer them from the old site. They have now been given a new and detailed page. This was prompted…

Read More Steven Crew

The Path Finder Monument has now been completed and was recently unveiled at RAF Wyton on Path Finder Sunday. It will be relocated to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, where it will remain permanently.

Unfortunately, in the transfer from the old website, the biography of Gerry Cruwys written by his niece, Debbie Kennett, was mislaid. It is now back on the Mansbridge crew page. See also this post on a video about the Ottignies…

Read More Mansbridge Crew – Gerry Cruwys

Alain Libert, who for some years has been researching the Ottignies operation, 20 April 1944, and the loss of the Mansbridge crew, has produced a two-part video on the subject. Although it is in French, it can be easier to…

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  One for the wireless operators, particularly David Dushman and Joe Mack. I am currently writing a chapter on David Dushman for my new book, and Joe Mack was my father. Jennie Mack Gray

The Wakley page has finally been transferred from the old website. This page is a good illustration of the cross-currents between crews, who did not necessarily fly their entire tour in the original seven-men group which had come from the…

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Claude David has recently contacted us to give the correct name for Paul David, his uncle, who was killed on his 23rd birthday on June 23 1943 over Utrecht. Sgt Jean Baptiste Sylviel Paul David (RCAF) was known at home…

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RAF Station Bourn was the home of 97 Squadron for one year. This new page contains images, old and new, of the station.  

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It was extremely rare for a bomber crew in dire trouble to be able to send a message before the aircraft came down, but this was the case for the Moroney crew on 22 March 1944, whose w/op transmitted from…

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The Burns crew page has finally been set up properly, and a photograph of the Flight Engineer Earle George Dolby has been added. Burns Crew – Dolby

Tonight, at about this time, the first of the 21 Lancasters would be departing from Bourn. Right now, on the darkening airfield, all of the engines would be roaring and the air would be electric. In three hours time, the…

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The PFF Group Medical Officer was a highly impressive man known informally as Doc Macgown. For details of Macgown’s remarkable life, see this new page: PFF Staff – Doc MacGown

I am very sad to inform you all that Eric Rimmington of the Benton crew passed away on 9th October 2016. He was 95 years old. As his daughter Joan wrote, Eric was ‘a wonderful, much loved and respected man…

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Our last update on this memorial day concerns a unique piece of cine film, the only one we know of a member of 97 Squadron in wartime. Taken in 1943, it epitomises the glamour of RAF aircrew. The man in…

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As part of our commemoration of Black Thursday, we are posting an article by Doug Curtis, who flew that night and was one of the lucky survivors. Here is the link to Doug’s article, which was originally published almost 20…

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The Scott crew page has been updated with a new photograph of Sid Parrott and of the entire crew, posed in two stunning studio portraits, two months before their deaths on Black Thursday. These studio portraits are highly unusual as…

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Our thanks to Doug Curtis for pointing out an error on the Billing crew page – Tommy Hope was lost with the Ash crew, not the Edwards crew, as we had previously stated. Tommy was the only member of the…

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