Retracing the Amiens’ Raid – 80 years on – what would become known as

‘Operation Jericho’.


Exclusive additional feature for Club Members

In addition to the earlier report (see that here) we have received these images taken by the donors that paid for the trip as part of their support for the Auction lot offered at our fundraising Gala Dinner held at The RAF Club in London, last year. We thank them for sending these with the associated notes. ‘They enjoyed it!’

Departing Hunsdon – steep formation turn leading to a low-level flypast.

Hunsdon to Rocester – Canary Wharf is just behind the tail.

From Rochester out over The Channel, with the White Cliffs of Dover.

Tracking down the French Coast to Le Touquet
Approaching Jericho egress point at Criel and turn for the run to Amiens.
Le Touquet to Amiens ‘Flying in the slipstream of heroes’ The run to Amiens.
Amiens Cathedral
Amiens Prison, Today and below – how it looked after the attack.
Part of the main prison complex after the attack – merged from an original image.
Circling the prison – ahead of far Chipmunk – before joining the return route to Criel.
A closer view of the prison complex – clearly showing how difficult the raid would have been.
Le Touquet to Duxford.

The pilots found a window in the weather system over The Channel & SE England.

On the ground at Duxford.

This is a copy of the email we received from Amanda and Graeme.

That really was quite an extraordinary 48 hours – an amazing experience with so many memories.

We have now had a chance to take more of it in with the help of the photos – if we were to comment on everything this would be a very long e-mail.

As we left Criel and followed the course to Amiens it stopped feeling that we were simply re-enacting the raid but were more honouring the 18 crews from 1944.  The visits on the ground were poignant and set the scene for then second pass over the prison when the light was better and we knew what to look out for.

The other part of the trip – the flying – was incredible.  We enjoyed listening to David and Jon planning the route, discussing the weather and agreeing the plan.  The formation flying and less formal parts of the flight were fun.  We so enjoyed being part of the spectacle that attracted so much interest from many people along the way.

In a word – fantastic.

Our thanks to John and The Peoples Mosquito for bringing us all together, David and Jon – The Vintage Pair – for their friendly, professional delivery and of course to the Chipmunks who only wanted to please.

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