| 15 Aug 1942 - Bomber Command takes an important step forward with the creation of the Pathfinder Force, Commanded by Air Commodore D C T Bennett. Pathfinder aircraft fly ahead of the main bomber stream dropping target-marking flares over the main target. However, on its first mission on 18/19 August, heavy winds blew the flares off-target.
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On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
'Though men grow old, they stay the same'
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by
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