Our first presentation in the hall’s new set up: a very large screen and suspended projector along with a new lecturn. Althouth the system appeared to be working during the test session days before, it just wouldn’t work on the evening!

But Sean’s professional background shown through as he did the lecture without the visuals for backup. He described early days in what would become Bomber Command during the First World War. He said it was apperent that much work needed to be done on the accuracy of hitting targets. Even during the start of WW2 the targets could be missed by as much as seventy miles! Even though the crew thought they had actually hit it.

Sean decribed the forming of the special groups which would become the Path Finders. He named may well known names from the time which he had actually interviewd after the war for the books he was writing. With the onset of Radar,and lots of training, the Path Finders managed to hit most targets, even in cloudy   weather.