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    • “A CHANCE ENCOUNTER” by Dr Olav Heinemann, Duisburg-Essen University
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  • Category: PFF REMEMBRANCE

    PFF losses aboard and in the UK

  • Remembrance Day 2022

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on November 11, 2022November 11, 2022

    Remembering all the Pathfinders lost in the war, and those who survived but suffered from terrible memories in after-years, and all their friends and families. Image above: Remembrance scroll, sadly issued in many thousands, this …

    97 Squadron, PFF REMEMBRANCE
  • Remembrance: 16/17 December 1943, Black Thursday

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on December 15, 2021January 7, 2022

    On Thursday and Friday this week we remember the 50 Pathfinder aircrew who were killed in crashes in England on Thursday and Friday 78 years ago. The crews had just returned safely from that night’s …

    PFF REMEMBRANCE, Significant Events: Black Thursday
  • Remembrance Sunday: Lewis Austin

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on November 14, 2021July 10, 2022

    The total wartime losses for the Path Finder Force were given by their commander, Donald Bennett, as being 3,618 men.[1] It was a large figure for a small Force which only came into existence in the …

    582 Squadron, ARCHIVE NEWS, PFF REMEMBRANCE
  • Remembering Derek

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on September 29, 2021September 29, 2021

    Sometimes it is the smallest items which tell the most. A few old newspaper cuttings, preserved for many years, reveal how greatly Derek Charles Carrott, of the Townsend crew of 405 Squadron, was missed by …

    405 Squadron, PFF REMEMBRANCE
  • The Moore Crew

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on September 23, 2021September 29, 2021

    The Moore crew were all killed when their aircraft crashed at Gelsenkirchen in June 1943. James Parker McMillin was 97 Squadron’s Navigation Officer, and he had only stepped into the navigator role when the usual …

    97 Squadron, PFF REMEMBRANCE
  • “A Chance Encounter” – The Loss of the Moore Crew

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on September 21, 2021November 14, 2021

    Last summer, when lockdown was in progress in many parts of Europe, Dr Olav Heinemann of the University of Duisburg-Essen came across a stone commemorating an RAF crew in his local churchyard at Gelsenkirchen. His …

    97 Squadron, Germany, PFF REMEMBRANCE
  • Pathfinder Aircrew

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on July 9, 2021September 29, 2021

    This book has been 14 years in the making; it contains many personal stories, letters and photographs from the Archive, and has been written by our Chairperson, Jennie Mack Gray. It is on sale in …

    ARCHIVE NEWS, PFF AIRCREW, PFF CHARACTER & HISTORY, PFF PERSONNEL & BASES, PFF REMEMBRANCE, WAR BACKGROUND
  • Den Burg, Texel, Xmas Eve

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on December 25, 2020September 23, 2021

    The annual lighting of candles on the 167 graves at the War Cemetery at Den Burg, Texel, took place yesterday evening, Christmas Eve. This is a very simple but extremely moving and quietly spectacular ceremony, …

    PFF REMEMBRANCE, RAF Losses & Memorials
  • 16/17 December 1943: RAF Wyton Display

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on December 16, 2020

    For more details of the display at RAF Wyton Heritage Centre, see this page.

    97 Squadron, PFF REMEMBRANCE
  • 16/17 December 1943: Remembering the Thackway Crew

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on December 16, 2020August 17, 2021

    The Archive has its roots in a tragedy which occurred on 16/17 December 1943, afterwards known as Black Thursday. At that time, the crew of Ted Thackway were serving with 97 Squadron, which was stationed at …

    97 Squadron, ARCHIVE NEWS, PFF REMEMBRANCE, Significant Events: Black Thursday
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