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RAF PATHFINDERS ARCHIVE

The Pathfinders & the World they Knew

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  • About the Pathfinders
    • The PFF – A Quick Overview
    • PFF – Unique Conditions of Service
    • The Pathfinder Eagle
    • PATHFINDER AIRCREW: Courage, Love and Loss in Bomber Command’s Elite Force
    • Publicity and the Pathfinders
    • The Pathfinders – Controversial Beginnings
    • Harris and the Pathfinders
    • Harris Chooses Bennett as PFF AOC
    • PFF Losses in First Month, 1942
    • Early Months of the Path Finder Force
    • What’s in a Name? 8 Group or PFF?
  • PFF Squadrons & Bases
    • PFF Squadron Names and Codes
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  • Leadership
    • Don Bennett, Air Officer Commanding
    • Bennett, PR and 5 Group
    • Bennett and the Tirpitz
    • Donald Bennett, IWM Sound Recordings (1986)
    • Hamish Mahaddie, IWM sound recordings (1972 & 1989)
    • Anderson’s Logbook: First PFF Sortie
    • Robert Murray Buchan, Navigation Staff Officer
  • Library
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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
      • Kirkwood Crew
    • 16/17 December 1943: FIDO & Landing Aids
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  • Category: Uniforms, tags and ensignia

    With the exception of the PFF eagle, RAF uniform was the same across Bomber Command

  • The Danish Shoulder Flash

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on October 24, 2022

    The Library on this website has a new article, by Mikkel Planthinn, about the Danish Shoulder Flash, worn on the RAF uniform to indicate that the wearer was from the Allied country of Denmark. Denmark …

    Occupied Countries, Uniforms, tags and ensignia
  • Lancaster Gunners “Hotting Up”

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on October 11, 2022

    This month’s feature centres on an article in The Illustrated London News on 18 December 1943. A fabulous charcoal double-page drawing accompanies the piece. The scene is a Nissen hut where the gunners are undergoing their last …

    Uniforms, tags and ensignia
  • RAF Wound Stripes

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on July 11, 2021July 9, 2022

    The wound stripe, which was an unusual emblem on RAF uniforms, was a small gold band or pair of gold bands worn on the left sleeve. The airmen who wore these stripes had recovered from …

    Significant Events: Black Thursday, Uniforms, tags and ensignia
  • Robert Butler wins a Goldfish

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on July 11, 2021July 9, 2022

    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 …

    Uniforms, tags and ensignia
  • An Aussie Navigator gets his Wings

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on December 9, 2020July 9, 2022

    Norman McIntyre, later of 97 Squadron, PFF, at the ceremony which marked the completion of his training as a navigator: RAAF Navigator receives his Wings

    97 Squadron, Dominion & Colonial Airmen, Selection & Training, Uniforms, tags and ensignia
  • The Caterpillar Club

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on October 15, 2020July 9, 2022

    The Caterpillar Club was open to all aircrew whose lives had been saved by a parachute made of silk. It was run by Irvin Air Chutes of Great Britain, who made the parachutes. The tiny …

    Uniforms, tags and ensignia
  • The Pathfinder Eagle

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on October 15, 2020December 12, 2022

    In the Second World War, the Path Finder Force was the RAF’s only officially delineated elite force. As such, it had a unique emblem of an eagle badge. The badge was worn on the left-hand-side …

    PFF CHARACTER & HISTORY, Uniforms, tags and ensignia
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