Monday Meeting – Speaker Peter Pitman – Secret Ops from Tangmere

Monday Meeting Speaker Peter Pitman

The talk describes the exploits of No 161 Squadron’s “pick-up” pilots, a small group of highly skilled men who flew Westland Lysander aircraft on moonlit nights from RAF Tangmere to fields in German-occupied France, landing by torchlight to drop-off and pick up agents of the SOE and SIS and members of the French Resistance. Illustrated throughout with contemporary photos, the presentation ends with a full reconstruction of a typical Lysander ‘pick-up’ operation from RAF Tangmere.