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No. 239 Squadron Scoreboard

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 83/C/1334

Framed plywood panel painted dark green on the face with a black painted wooden German cross screwed over a Balkenkreuz black and white painted cross. "239" (B-S) SQUADRON RECORD of VICTORIES in white lettering with the recorded the Squadron victories for the period 2 January-14 April 1945 painted on the black cross. A "key" DESTROYED and DAMAGED painted in the bottom right corner. Slight paint reaction in top right corner.

'Figaro' Emblem of Ian Gleed

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 71/A/222

Starboard cockpit door panel from Hawker Hurricane. Decorated with the "Figaro" kitten personal emblem of Wing Commander Ian Richard Gleed. The hand painted black and white kitten is portrayed swatting a fractured swastika with its bloodied paw. The door is complete with all original features including cockpit canopy rail and interior instrument pouches and release catch. There is evidence of a lighter rectangular patch where an internal fitting has been removed.

1,000lb, 7 Store, Mk. 1

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 85/O/240

Cream painted steel and aluminium structure with electrical connections and raised three central sections forming part of the seven 1000lb bomb attachments as carried in Avro Vulcan bomb bay. The carrier consists of a front and a rear beam between which are secured seven channels and two carrier-locking units, and from the underside of which extend three pylons which carry the lower of the two tiers of bombs.

Head and Breast Set

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 67/R/448

Combination instrument comprising a pair of headphones mounted on a polished steel support made up of two strips on metal with screw clamps at the ends permitting the headphones to be raised or lowered and a Y shaped Bakelite piece holding a microphone and a speaking horn suspended round the operator's neck by a clip-on cotton tape. The microphone and headphones connected by electrical wiring terminating in a large jack plug.

Medal Bar of Air Chief Marshal Baron Dowding of Bentley Priory

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1997/0254/D

1914 Star with clasp 22ND August - 5TH NOV 1914, reverse impressed CAPT. H.C.T. DOWDING. R.G.A. ATTD: R.F.C. War Medal 1914-1918, edge impressed LT. COL. H.C.T. DOWDING. R.F.C Victory Medal with Mention in Despatches, edge impressed LT. COL. H.C.T. DOWDING. R.F.C Defence Medal War Medal 1939-1945 Silver Jubilee Medal 1935 Coronation Medal 1937 Coronation Medal 1953 King Feisal War Medal (Iraq) Mounted overlapping, sewn down.

GAF 1933-1945, Model LKp N101

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 65/U/598

Dark brown cotton net flying helmet with leather covered telephone holders and leather brow band. The interior of the telephone holders padded with fleece fabric or fine sheepskin. The earphone electrical wiring enters at the lower rear of the helmet and attached in the same position is the suspension rig for the throat microphone. Two flat hooks are positioned below the earphone housings and two studs are positioned on their inner edges to which fasten the oxygen mask.

The Enigma Machine

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 82/R/503

Build 1. Portable encoding machine, in rectangular wooden case with hinged lid. The main unit has letters on push-down keys forming a typewriter like keyboard and a photocopy of the operating manual, plus the original printed operating instructions, in German, inside the wooden lid, partly covered by a detachable transparent green plastic cover. Row of 10 light bulbs along top inner edge of lid. Drop down lid at front to access plugs which plug into numbered and lettered sockets. One lid hinge detached and with copy instruction manual.

Auxiliary Fire Service Jacket

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X006-5580

Double-breasted, long skirted tunic type jacket with a stand collar open in front. Shoulder straps. Six pairs of buttons at front - plated 'silver' with AFS in relief - two in the small of the back above a box pleat in the skirt, and on the shoulder straps. Plain sleeves, no cuff. The shoulder straps furnished with two transverse strips of scarlet melton cloth indicating a Section Leader. Lined in coarse black woollen fabric in the body, black cotton in the skirts and white woollen fabric in the sleeves. Condition - good, but buttons and collar hooks corroded and the lining becoming unstitched. Two buttons missing.

Royal Air Force Prisoners of War Association Memorial Plaque

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X002-3411

Memorial to the 50 PoWs shot after the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944. Rectangular memorial plaque with glass fronted deep wooden frame, topped by a brass eagle with outstretched wings. Features Royal Air Force Prisoners of War Association badge at the centre with RAF, Fighter Command and Bomber Command Association badges and RCAF, RAF, RNZAF and RAAF pilot's wings and central plaque inscribed 'Look at this Friend. Take the Freedom they strove to Give You and be in their debt.' Smaller individual name plaques bearing the names of those shot.

Distinguished Flying Cross

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X007-0047

A silver cross with bifurcated and curled ends bearing flaming grenades, overlaid vertically with a two-blade propeller and horizontally with a pair of wings. The centre medallion composed of a laurel wreath overlaid by a crowned Tudor rose bearing, centrally, RAF in monogram. The top branch without a grenade, fashioned with a decorative shape and loop for suspension. An intermediate ring connects to a plain suspender bar with laurel leaves below pierced to receive the intermediate ring. Reverse - Within a ring GRI 1918. Engraved at the bottom of the cross the date of award - 1943. Ribbon - white and purple in thin diagonal lines.