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The Pathfinders & the World they Knew

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    • “A CHANCE ENCOUNTER” by Dr Olav Heinemann, Duisburg-Essen University
    • “AN AUSTRALIAN PATHFINDER OVER GERMANY”, by Professor Tim Willasey-Wilsey, King’s College, London
    • GEOFF BAKER, RAAF Pilot with 97 Squadron, by Stan Hurd
    • MARK GLEED, Navigator with 139 Squadron, by Len Gleed
    • The Loss of the Robertson Crew – German Reports
    • THE DANISH SHOULDER FLASH, by Mikkel Plannthin
  • FEATURED ARTICLES
    • A War Artist and the Pathfinders
    • Carrier Pigeons in the Bomber War
    • Christmas 1944 in a POW Camp
    • New Year’s Eve, Stalag IVb, 1944-45.
    • Lancaster Gunners “Hotting Up”
    • Leslie Barr and P/O Prune
  • The Night of the Fog, 16/17 December 1943 (Black Thursday)
    • The Night of the Fog, 16/17 December 1943 (Black Thursday)
    • Why the Archive Began
    • Pathfinder Losses on 16/17 December 1943
    • 97 Squadron Aircrew Flying on 16/17 December 1943
      • De Wesselow Crew
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    • 16/17 December 1943: FIDO & Landing Aids
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  • Category: RAF Losses & Memorials

    Losses in the RAF and in Bomber Command. See also PFF Remembrance.

  • Remembrance on Texel, Xmas Eve

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on December 25, 2022December 25, 2022

    Jan Nieuwenhuis sent the following message late yesterday: “Today late this afternoon, we again placed candle lights in front of all the war graves at the Texel War Cemetery…” With grateful thanks to Jan Nieuwenhuis …

    97 Squadron, Occupied Countries, RAF Losses & Memorials
  • Remembrance Sunday

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on November 13, 2022November 13, 2022

    Photograph, possibly taken in November 1942, of a Remembrance ceremony at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire. The lych gate in the picture is still there today. The central figure is the exiled King Peter …

    405 Squadron, Occupied Countries, RAF Losses & Memorials
  • The Queen & RAF Remembrance

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on June 5, 2022July 12, 2022

    The Queen’s long association with the Royal Air Force began during the Second World War. Our second post celebrating her 70th Jubilee concerns Runnymede in 1953. The Runnymede Memorial commemorates all members of the Air …

    ARCHIVE NEWS, RAF Losses & Memorials
  • 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
  • RAF Funerals

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on October 16, 2018July 10, 2022

    Surviving photographs of RAF funerals are very rare. Although many were taken officially during the war, so that relatives living abroad could see that their loved ones had been buried with honour, it seems that …

    97 Squadron, Aircrew backgrounds, RAF Losses & Memorials, Selection & Training
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