MRES – RAF PATHFINDERS ARCHIVE

RAF Missing Research

Posted by RAF PATHFINDERS ARCHIVEon March 23, 2018in Main Force, MRES

Our sister website, WWII Missing Research, War Graves, & Remembrance, has published an account of how the London Press were used to identify one particular Main Force crew, who had been buried as unknowns in France in September 1942.

See Robert Whitley, Viroflay Cemetery, France.

Air Ministry Casualty Branch, Oxford Street

Posted by RAF PATHFINDERS ARCHIVEon February 18, 2018February 18, 2018in MRES, RAF Missing Research, War Graves, & Remembrance, The Air War - background

Our sister site, RAF MISSING RESEARCH, WAR GRAVES, & REMEMBRANCE, has published a page on The Air Ministry Casualty Branch in Oxford Street, which dealt with many thousands of aircrew casualties – killed, missing, and wounded – during the years that the Pathfinders were in operation.

Tales from the Archive – No 2

Posted by RAF PATHFINDERS ARCHIVEon December 10, 2017in MRES, RAF Station Coningsby, Tales from the ArchiveLeave a comment

Another copy of TALES FROM THE ARCHIVE is now available, which has details of the Reid crew, the loss of Wing Commander Edward Leach Porter on the Stettin Bay Mining Operation, and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service.

Tales from the Archive – 2. December 2017

For more extensive details of the STETTIN BAY MINING OPERATION, which demanded the most enormous courage from the Controller, Porter, and the two marker Deputies, Squadron Leader Parkes and Squadron Leader Locke, follow the link.