The Pathfinder (2004)
“Harrison travelled in the leading vehicle, up in the cabin, and the driver, a tough-looking corporal, was somewhat surprised to find himself sitting beside an RAF squadron leader. ‘Thought you’d’ve gone in by air, the comfy way, sir.’ He would have thought so, too, but he had no intention of discussing it with the corporal or of satisfying his curiosity. Instead he lit a cigarette and smoked in silence, staring out of the window. He was glad to have left the city behind. Seeing the massive dest...ruction in central Hanover, close up and at ground level, had been a more sobering experience than he had expected. By the end of his second wartime tour with the squadron he had notched up a good number of ops there and revisited it later as a Pathfinder, marking the targets for the bombers coming after. He’d come to know Germany rather well by night from the air and had flown over it low in broad daylight in the first months after the war was over, taking ground crews on a kind of Thomas Cook’s sightseeing tour.MoreLess
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