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NAAFI Token
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 74/Z/1068
This plastic token was used in place of money by occupying troops in Germany and Austria. With this a serviceman could buy goods or pay for services from the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, known as the NAAFI.
Board, Destination, Imperial Airways
Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 77/C/1045
This reversible destination board dates from around 1937 and was used by Imperial Airways at Croydon Airport. It was fitted to the aircraft steps, showing passengers where the airliner was going.
Aircraft Lapel Badge
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 84/C/1030
Fighter Funds raised money to buy aircraft by public donation. This small Spitfire badge was manufactured from a penny at No. 32 Maintenance Unit at RAF St Athan and sold as part of a local fundraising effort.
Service Dress Cap of a Chaplain
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 68/U/131
Chaplains wear the same blue grey service dress cap as other RAF officers but the eagle and laurel badge is replaced by the winged cross of the RAF Chaplaincy.
Housewife Sewing Kit
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 77/U/1242
A sewing kit, known as a housewife, has been a standard bit of military kit for centuries.
Dining Fork
Aircraft & Exhibits, 71/Z/257
The personal issue knife, fork and spoon set would not always be necessary. This fork would have been used in the Sergeant's Mess at RAF Henlow.
Service Dress Cap of Other Ranks
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1993/0191/U
The year after Service Dress caps were reinstated, the wearing of coloured bands to distinguish Apprentices and Boy Entrants was reintroduced.
Kangaroo mascot Sergeant Dennis Bunner
Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, X005-5966
This hand made kangaroo and joey mascot belonged to bomb aimer Sergeant Dennis Bunner, who flew on Lancasters with No. 467 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force.
Home Service Eagle Shoulder Badge
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 68/U/383
Other Ranks uniforms of the RAF displayed rearward facing eagle badges on the shoulders similar in style to the eagles worn on the upper arms of the Royal Naval Air Service uniform.
Medals of Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader
Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 76/D/709
Douglas Bader defied all expectations as a double leg amputee to become one of the most successful fighter pilots of the Second World War with 20 confirmed victories.
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