Pathways in the Sky

Pathways in the Sky

Memoir of Horace Daniels DFC

The memoir contains a summary of Daniels' flying career. He completed initial training at Torquay and his flying training at Bulawayo in South Africa, sailing out on the Reina Del Pacifico and returning on the Empress of Canada. As a navigator he flew with 207 and 57 Squadrons, attacking targets in Germany, Italy and Czechoslovakia. He and his crew then joined 97 Squadron in the Pathfinder Force, where he completed a further tour of 45 operations. He then attended a Staff Navigation Course at the Central Navigation School before taking up duties as an instructor at RAF Little Rissington.
Daniels also took part in the Victory in Europe parade in London and after the war joined the Pathfinder's Association. He closes his memoir with the words of Air Vice Marshal Bennett, who led the Pathfinder Force.
The memoir also contains two photographs of Daniels, with his family, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross at Buckingham Palace. It also has an extract from his logbook and a newspaper cutting about an operation against Hamburg in July 1943.

Nine printed sheets

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