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  • Category: 109 Sqd (M)

    109 Squadron, Mosquitoes

  • Winston Johnson, navigator, Special Duties

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on February 20, 2022February 23, 2022

    Winston Johnson’s wartime service was as a navigator/specialist wireless operator. He was involved in top-secret work, some of it with 109 Squadron, a founding Mosquito squadron of the Pathfinders. On 31 January 1945, Winston was …

    109 Sqd (M), Intelligence & Counter-Measures, Occupied Countries
  • The Three Pathfinder VCs

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on December 24, 2020July 10, 2022

    The three Victoria Crosses awarded to Pathfinders were all gazetted in 1945, some time after the deaths of the recipients. The three men who performed extraordinary feats of heroism and self-sacrifice were Ian Willoughby Bazalgette, …

    109 Sqd (M), 582 Squadron, 635 Squadron, Medal Awards & MID, Significant Events: Ops
  • 23 December 1944, “Heroic Endeavour”

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on December 23, 2020July 10, 2022

    On 16 December 1944, German Panzers spearheaded a surprise attack in the Ardennes that smashed through thinly held Allied lines, catching the Allied commanders completely off-guard. The Allied fight-back included the extraordinary feat of heroism …

    109 Sqd (M), 35 Squadron, 582 Squadron, Significant Events: Ops
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