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GEE Radio Frequency Unit Type 24

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X005-2646

Rectangular spot welded steel case with a manual 1-5 switch, trimmer knob, lead connector, four threaded locking nuts and a "D" handle all fitted in the face. Six pin plug and two spring loaded spikes in the rear.

Military Medal of Sergeant Helen Emily Turner

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 76/D/692

Circular, silver with scroll type suspender bar. Obverse - the sovereign in profile bust length portrait with title inscription around the rim. Reverse - within an open wreath of laurel FOR BRAVERY IN THE FIELD below a crowned cypher. Edge impressed

RAF, Type G Oxygen Mask

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 82/U/834

Grey-green rubber face cup, the inner edge lined in suede, shaped so as to fit over the nose and chin. Below the chin an oval-section extension housing the expiratory valve and the oxygen supply inlet which bifurcates and is carried into the upper part of the mask in ducts fashioned within the wall of the mask. Inspiratory valve in lower left cheek. Above the oval extension, a large circular central aperture housing the microphone which is clamped in by a wire ring and sealed with a rubber collar. Around the oval extension, and attached by brackets to the microphone clamp ring, an adjustable, cotton webbing suspension harness terminating on the left in a leather pad with three female press studs and on the right with a single strap and a metal loop. The press studs engage with male studs on the left side of the helmet and the loop engages with a flat hook attached to the right side. A connecting cable and plug emerge from the bottom of the microphone casing. A copper wire held in loops cast into the rubber of the mask, is positioned across the nose to ensure a snug fit in that area. Oxygen pipe of black, corrugated rubber with plastic upper end to screw into the inlet and yellow alloy lower end to connect to aircraft oxygen supply system. Lower end fitted with bulldog clip to attach to harness or clothing to stop the weight of the supply pipe dragging the mask off the face.

Medals of Corporal Ernest Gladstone Reeves

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X001-2417

Circular, silver with plain bar suspender. Obverse - Crowned profile of KGVI, left side. Around rim GEORGIUS VI D: G: BRO: OMN: REX ET INDIAE: IMP: Reverse - A lion trampling on a two headed monster with, above, 1939 1945. Ribbon - red, white and blue in narrow stripes. With Mention in Despatches.

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Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 71/O/131

Twin 7.92mm machine gun mounted in rear cockpit of Bf110.

Royal Air Forces Escaping Society Resistance Memorial

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X002-3412

Relief plaque showing a wounded British airman being helped away by a man and a woman of the Resistance, with, in the background, three Lancasters, searchlight beams and a parachuting airman just being noticed by the woman as she looks behind her. Below are six lines of text. RAF Escaping Society badge in left corner.

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Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1992/0251/O

Deactivated aircraft machine gun mounted in wing of Fairey Battle light bomber (temporarily removed).

Medal Bar of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X002-5900

Iron Cross, 2nd Class, 1914 with clasp 1939 Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Knight's Cross with Swords Military Karl Friedrich Order, Knight's Cross (Baden) Order of the Zahringen Lion, Knight, 2nd Class with Swords (Baden) - mit Eichenlaub/with Oak Leaf suspender SEE History Note Cross of Honour for the Great War, Combatant (3rd Reich) Forces Long Service Decoration, 1st Class, mit Hoheitszeichen in gold (Eagle and swastika) Forces Long Service Decoration, 2nd Class, mit Hoheitszeichen in silver (Eagle and swastika) Anschluss Medal Protectorate Medal Medal Commemorating the Return of Memel West Wall Medal Civil Defence Decoration,1st Class Bulgarian War Commemorative Medal 1915 – 1918. Mounted overlapping with draped ribbons in the German style.

No. 239 Squadron Scoreboard

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 83/C/1333

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" (BS) over S-D SQUADRON RECORD of VICTORIES in white lettering with the recorded the Squadron victories for the period 28 January-6 November 1944 painted on the black cross. A "key" DESTROYED, PROBABLE and DAMAGED painted in the bottom right corner.

Flying Helmet, RAF, Type C, Wired

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 82/U/833

Brown leather helmet lined in chamois constructed in strips passing from front to rear of the wearer's head with a brow band, lined in velvet. Fitted with circular, black rubber telephone holders. Combined microphone and earphone/telephone wiring enters at centre rear of helmet and is fed through to the earphones and to a microphone plug below the left ear. Three male press studs on each side of face aperture for connection of Type G Oxygen mask. Right side studs fitted with hook to receive loop from mask harness. Centre rear fitted with short buckled strap to retain goggles strap. Two vertical leather tabs sewn at top and with press studs at bottom placed behind telephone holders to steady goggles strap.