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The Pathfinders & the World they Knew

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    • “A CHANCE ENCOUNTER” by Dr Olav Heinemann, Duisburg-Essen University
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    • GEOFF BAKER, RAAF Pilot with 97 Squadron, by Stan Hurd
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  • Category: Intelligence & Counter-Measures

    Intelligence services such as photographic reconnaissance, and counter-measures such as radar countermeasures.

  • 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
  • Harris, Bomber Command & PR

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on April 29, 2019July 10, 2022

    Our post of 27 April 2019 contained a Press photograph of Harris using a stereopticon. It was only when we came to do a further post on the subject that we realised the link between the Press …

    Intelligence & Counter-Measures, Publicity and PR
  • Photography in the Air War: 2

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on April 27, 2019October 15, 2020

    In February 2019 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 …

    Intelligence & Counter-Measures, WAR BACKGROUND
  • Photography in the Air War: 1

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on April 27, 2019July 10, 2022

    Following on from the two last posts on the critical role of photography in the Air War, here is a wartime press photograph of the head of Bomber Command, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, …

    Intelligence & Counter-Measures, WAR BACKGROUND
  • EVIDENCE IN CAMERA

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on April 7, 2019October 12, 2020

    More from the fascinating 1957 book Evidence in Camera. Wing Commander Peter Stewart was chosen to command a new Assistant Directorate of Photographic Intelligence in the summer of 1941. At this time reconnaissance photographs were …

    Intelligence & Counter-Measures, WAR BACKGROUND
  • Bruneval Raid, 27/28 February 1942

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on April 7, 2019February 23, 2022

    Last Sunday, I went to Goodrich, near Ross-on-Wye, for a talk about the radar aid H2S and the tragic crash which killed its inventor, Alan Blumlein (see Blumlein Crash). H2S was critical to Pathfinder navigational …

    Intelligence & Counter-Measures, WAR BACKGROUND
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