The momentous last few weeks of the war & its aftermath.
VE Day on 8 May 1945 was celebrated with huge enthusiasm at the Path Finder Force. We are marking the 80th Anniversary with several new features on the victory. Today the following pages cover how the Air Officer Commanding, Donald Bennett, made the announcement to the Pathfinders, and how victory […]
Further to our post yesterday about Frederick Jones, a pilot with 635 Squadron, and his earlier time in training (see Frederick Jones, 635 Squadron, & Heaton Park) we have now located the end of war photograph from which his image has been taken. It is a huge photograph and our […]
“A Matter of Life and Death”, released in 1946, tells the story of a Pathfinder pilot, Squadron Leader Peter Carter, and the American girl, June, he falls in love with. The film starts on the night of 2 May 1945, in other words at the very end of the war […]