3. 30-09-20 Future Visit - RAF Pathfinder Museum

A good friend and colleague of mine, Carl Thomas, is a curator at the Pathfinder Museum at RAF Wyton.  The museum contains the most comprehensive collection of RAF Pathfinder Force memorabilia and proudly displays one of the largest collections of Pathfinder Force photographs in existence. He has offered Water Conservators a private visit in 2021 including lunch in the Officers Mess. This year the museum unveiled a new memorial to Pathfinder Force at RAF Wyton.

As many of you know my father was a navigator in RAF during World War 2 and completed 29 operational bombing missions to Germany in RAF Lancasters for which he was awarded the DFC. Most Lancasters averaged only 5 missions. He then joined Pathfinder Force and flew numerous further missions in Mosquitos marking the target for bombing raids. The museum hold a copy of his biography. My sister and I are both very much looking forward to this visit, more details will be available once the current restrictions begin to lift. I do hope as many of you as possible will be able to join us to help honour the memory of my father.