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- Tags: Pathfinders
Lancaster parked on airfield
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; dispersal; Lancaster; Pathfinders
Two men in front of a tree
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Pathfinders
Four airmen
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; flight engineer; Pathfinders
Two airmen eating
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Pathfinders
Arthur Pearce Diary 1944
Arthur Pearce award of Pathfinder force badge
Tags: aircrew; Pathfinders
Award of La Croix du Combattant de L'Europe
156 Squadron
Tags: 156 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; Pathfinders; RAF Wyton
Service record from August 1942 until November 1946 November
Tags: 1661 HCU; 460 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; fitter airframe; forced landing; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mechanics airframe; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; recruitment; Stirling; training
Goodwill tour of United States
Goodwill tour of United States and Victory Fly-Past
Famed RAF Squadron to visit Lowry
Goodwill visit to United States
Article states that 16 Lancasters of 35 Pathfinder Squadron will arrive 27 July 1946 on three day visit to Denver area. They arrived in the United States at Mitchel Field New…
Southwark 'Pathfinder' on goodwill mission
Bottom right - Arthur Pearce leaning out of the rear door of a Lancaster rear turret which is rotated fully to port.
Bottom left - newspaper cutting title 'Southwark "Pathfinder" on…
Bombing and people
Top right - Arthur Pearce in uniform holding hand of young child on the left. Another child is partly visible to the left of the photography. In the background a tree…
They Refused to Fly
A second article titled 'Norton Camp, Sheffield' is about a punishment camp where the writer was sent after cycling…
Harold Kirby’s flight engineers log book
Tags: 1661 HCU; 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; flight engineer; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Coningsby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Gordon Cruickshank life on squadrons 1940-1944
Tags: 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Pathfinders; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Felixstowe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; searchlight; training
The Lancaster which knew its way home
Ops are on. Maximum effort
A miraculous escape from certain death in world war 2
Operations June 1944
582 Squadron Battle Order
Pathfinder Club tie
Tags: Pathfinders