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  • Category: Germany

    The bombing war and Germany

  • Crash site of Kenneth Brown crew

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on February 23, 2022April 5, 2022

    Following on from the interesting and detailed German eyewitness reports of The Loss of the Robertson Crew, published at the end of January 2022, we have more German eyewitness reports of another 97 Squadron crew, …

    97 Squadron, Casualty Branch, MRES, Burials, Germany
  • The Loss of the Robertson Crew

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on January 29, 2022February 23, 2022

    We have just added some interesting and unusually detailed German eyewitness reports of the loss of the Robertson crew after the Nuremburg raid of 27/28 August 1943. Lancaster JA958K crashed at Bubenreuth, near Erlangen, around …

    97 Squadron, Casualty Branch, MRES, Burials, Dominion & Colonial Airmen, Germany
  • A German Bomber Crew

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on September 21, 2021September 23, 2021

    Dr Olav Heinemann’s article “A Chance Encounter” contains a last section which mentions his grandfather Kurt Heinemann who was a navigator on a Luftwaffe bomber. We very much like the closing paragraph of the article: …

    Germany, WAR BACKGROUND
  • “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
  • Wartime Opposition to Bombing

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on January 2, 2021July 10, 2022

    During the war, public opinion in Britain and the Dominions was firmly on the side of Bomber Command. However, there was also some determined criticism of Bomber Command’s campaigns, not least by George Bell, Bishop …

    Germany, Publicity and PR, RAF BOMBER COMMAND
  • Der Feind, The Fiend

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on December 30, 2020December 31, 2020

    This public information poster was printed in Berlin in 1940. The designer was Sander-Herwig. (Information from The Wolfsonian Digital Catalog, Accession number: XX1990.2765) Note the RAF roundel on the wing of the aircraft, and the …

    Germany, Propaganda & Public Information
  • The RAF and the Channel Dash

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on December 28, 2019July 10, 2022

    On 11 February 1942, the prestigious German battleships the Scharnhorst, the Gneisenau and the Prinz Eugen broke out of the westerly French port of Brest and sailed east, up the English Channel, in a break for …

    83 Squadron, Germany, Pre-PFF Service
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