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Pathfinder Force badge of Wing Commander Raymond Hilton

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1993/0281/U

Pathfinder crews identified and marked targets for the main bomber stream of aircraft. These crews underwent additional training and were expected to complete one Tour of 45 operations. A qualified Pathfinder was allowed to wear the coveted eagle badge over his left breast pocket.

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Caterpillar Club Badge of Sergeant Leonard Clarke

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1995/0819/U

The Caterpillar Club awards membership to people whose lives have been saved by baling out of a stricken aircraft using an Irvin parachute. Members are awarded a gold caterpillar pin badge (the caterpillar represents the silk thread from which parachutes were originally made).

Copper coloured badge, caterpillar shape, with red eyes, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Medal Bar of 6 of Squadron Leader Lawrence ('Benny') Seymour Goodman

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X008-7563

Benny Goodman was born in London and joined the RAF in 1939. He completed 30 operations with No. 617 Squadron including against the battleship Tirpitz. His medals are 1939-1945 Star with Bomber Command Clasp, Arctic Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Legion d'Honneur Order of the Chevalier.

6 medals with colourful ribbons mounted next to each other on a wearable bar, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Luftwaffe Anti-Aircraft War Badge

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 66/U/941

Originally devised as qualification badges for aircrew, the use of some trade badges became linked to combat experience. The Anti-Aircraft Badge was awarded according to a points system reflecting the types of engagements that individual had undertaken.

Badge shows a flak gun surrounded by a wreath with a Nazi eagle above., RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAF Museum

Medal Bar of Wing Commander Raymond Hilton

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1993/0280/D

‘Ray’ Hilton was the pilot of our Lancaster R5868 on the first of its 137 operations, to Wilhelmshaven on 8 July 1942. Hilton captained the aircraft on a further 17 operations.

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No. 239 Squadron Scoreboard

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1945, London, Hangar Five, 83/C/1334

These panels record the aerial victories achieved by No. 239 (Bomber Support) Squadron’s Mosquitos.

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Observer Corps Lapel Badge

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 78/U/621

The Observer Corps, later Royal Observer Corps, was a civil defence organisation formed to detect, identify, track and report aircraft in the skies over the UK.

Round metal badge with an engraved scene of an observer searching the skies, encircled by a motto in a blue border, © RAF Museum

No. 239 Squadron Scoreboard

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1944, London, Hangar Five, 83/C/1333

This panel records the aerial victories achieved by No. 239 (Bomber Support) Squadron’s Mosquitos.

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Plotting Block, Friendly Forces

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1940, London, Hangar Five, X002-6607

Plotting blocks and counters were used in Operations Rooms in the Second World War and particularly in the Battle of Britain to track the movements of incoming formations of enemy aircraft.

Wooden block with white and blue counters on inset shelves, with pole extending vertically from top, surmounted by yellow plate with the numbers 253 in black text, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Female Flak-Helper’s Arm Badge

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1986/0591/U

By 1943 a lack of manpower led the Luftwaffe to turn to auxiliary forces for personnel to operate their flak and searchlight defences. These included female auxiliaries, schoolchildren aged 16 and Russian prisoners of war willing to help in exchange for better conditions.

Female Flak-Helper’s Arm Badge | 1986/0591/U, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan