BOMBER COMMAND, THE PATHFINDERS, AND 97 SQUADRON

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97 Squadron Aircrew, Aircrew Losses

Burns Crew – Dolby

January 18, 2017 Bomber Command, the Path Finder Force, and 97 Squadron

The Burns crew page has finally been set up properly, and a photograph of the Flight Engineer Earle George Dolby has been added.

Burns Crew – Dolby

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Life and Death in the PFF

  • 1943 – Unique Cine Film, showing Pathfinder pilot
  • A Wartime Station, RAF Station Bourn
  • Aircrew Nationality
  • Aiming Point Raid Cards
  • Australian Casualty List
  • Aircraft Loss Card for Black Thursday
  • Bennett & PFF War Effort
  • Casualty Letter
  • The Caterpillar Club
  • The Cost to The Occupied Countries
  • Funerals at Cambridge City Cemetery, December 1943
  • The Gunnery Dome at RAF Wyton
  • Keeping a Lancaster Flying
  • Memorial to the Steven Crew, and Remembrance on Texel
  • Memorial Windows & Monuments
  • One for All the W/Ops
  • One for All the Air Gunners
  • Operation Exodus & Repatriation
  • PFF Flares
  • Ted Thackway’s Grave
  • Valentine Card
  • Weddings

The Pathfinders

  • Formation
  • Appointment of Bennett
  • Bennett’s Memoirs
  • Setting up the Path Finder Force
  • Squadrons and Bases
  • Unique Conditions of Service of PFF
  • PFF HQ Staff in December 1944
  • PFF HQ Staff list
  • PFF HQ Staff – Boyce, S.A.S.O
  • PFF HQ Staff – Doc MacGown
  • PFF HQ Staff – Mahaddie
  • PFF HQ Staff – Thomas, the Met Officer
  • 97 Squadron – History Prior to Woodhall Spa
  • 97 Squadron at Woodhall Spa
  • 97 Squadron, PFF, RAF Station Bourn
  • 97 and 83 Sqds Leave the PFF
  • 97 Squadron at Coningsby, 1944
  • 405 Squadron – The Canadians
  • 139 Squadron – Squadron Leader Hubert Wakeford, DFC
  • 582 Squadron – May 1945
  • 635 Squadron & C Flight, 97 Squadron
  • 635 Squadron – Tubby Baker
  • Churchill at Oakington, 1942
  • The Engineering Officer at Warboys

Pathfinders – Some Other Topics

  • PFF – Ops Board at Wyton
  • PFF – Castle Hill House, HQ, January 2008
  • PFF – Ruined PFF Airfields
  • PFF – The Gunnery Dome at RAF Wyton
  • PFF – Sector Clock at Wyton and Castle Hill House

LOVE, FELLOWSHIP, AND LOSS: RAF Bomber Command Aircrew, Their Families, and Their Friends

Bomber Command, the Path Finder Force, and 97 Squadron

Bomber Command, the Path Finder Force, and 97 Squadron

This website covers many aspects of life in RAF Bomber Command from 1942, the year in which the Path Finder Force was formed. However, our specific focus is upon the Path Finder Force, the PFF, and in particular upon 97 Squadron, which belonged to the PFF for one year. By concentrating mainly upon one Group (the PFF became 8 Group) and one squadron, we will provide an in-depth illustration of what life - and death - were like in Bomber Command for aircrew, their families, and their friends.

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Black Thursday, 16/17 December 1943

  • Memorial Page
  • Black Thursday – Conditions and Landing Aids
  • RAF and PFF Losses
  • S/L Dunnicliffe, 97 Squadron CO on Black Thursday
  • “A Very Black Thursday” by member of aircrew
  • 97 Sqd – Aircrew Flying on Black Thursday
  • Crew: Billing
  • Crew: Brill
  • Crew: Cawdery
  • Crew: Coates
  • Crew: Deverill
  • Crew: De Wesselow
  • Crew: Flack
  • Crew: Kirkwood
  • Crew: Mackenzie
  • Crew: Mansbridge
  • Crew: Mooney
  • Crew: Nicholls
  • Crew: Owen
  • Crew: Pelletier
  • Crew: Riches
  • Crew: Roberts
  • Crew: Scott
  • Crew: Smith
  • Crew: Snell
  • Crew: Thackway
  • Crew: Thackway, Biographical Details
  • Crew: Wilson
  • 405 Squadron – The Bessent Twins and Black Thursday
  • 405 Squadron – The McLennan Crew and Black Thursday

97 Sqd – Aircrew and Ground Staff

  • About the COs
  • About the Adjutant
  • About the Crews
  • Surviving Aircrew
  • Alabaster & Eaton-Clarke Crew
  • Armstrong Crew
  • Baker (Valentine) Crew
  • Benton Crew
  • Brown (Kenneth) Crew
  • Brown (Kenneth) Crew, Lionel Boyton
  • Burns Crew
  • Chatten Crew
  • Clarke Crew
  • Clarke Crew, Dutch Eyewitness Crash Report
  • Coleman Crew
  • Covington Crew
  • Edwards Crew
  • Emerson Crew
  • Fletcher Crew
  • Garlick Crew
  • Johnson Crew
  • Jones (Doug) Crew
  • Marks Crew
  • McEgan Crew
  • Moore Crew
  • Moroney Crew
  • Munro Crew
  • Palmer Crew
  • Penny Crew
  • Reilly Crew
  • Robertson Crew
  • Seward Crew
  • Shnier Crew
  • Simpson – Master Bomber
  • Steven Crew
  • Stevenson Crew
  • Treacy Crew
  • Wakley Crew
  • Other Websites

GROUND CREW & BOURN

  • Ground Crew: Sidney Mathews, Award for Bravery
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