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Half a Million Tons and a Goat: A Study of British Participation in the Berlin Airlift 25 June 1948 - 12 May 1949

Archives, In Storage, X008-5387

Electronic copy of a PhD thesis by Richard David Keen regarding the British participation in the Berlin Airlift, submitted in 2013

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RAF Marriage Allowance Form, 1923

Archives, In Storage, A463

Air Ministry Form 954, Marriage Allowance, 1923.

RAF marriage allowance form, 1923, Crown ©

News sheet leaflet in French, Le Courier de L'Air (‘Air Mail’), 8 March 1944

Archives, In Storage, AC85/4/12

This propaganda news sheet was dropped in occupied territory in France.

Article titled "Offensive" in Le Courrier De L'Air with associated pictures, Crown ©

Programme for boxing tournament between RAF Lichfield and RAF Stafford, 16 February 1944

Archives, In Storage, AC85/4/11

This boxing programme is part of Pilot Officer Richard Ellison Shennan's collection of papers. His papers contain material from the 1940s.

Front page of boxing tournament programme, Crown ©

Diagram of instructions for operating type "B" Free Balloon Barrage Balloon, circa 1941

Archives, In Storage, A864

Diagram card providing written and visual instructions on how to set up and operate a type "B" Free Balloon Barrage Balloon.

Instruction card featuring diagrams indicating how to set up a type "B" Free Balloon Barrage Balloon, © Crown

Letter to Mrs Clarke from the Commanding Officer of No. 7 Squadron regarding the loss of Sergeant Leonard Clarke, 16 January 1944

Archives, London, Hangar Five, AC95/45/4

This letter was sent to Leonard Clarke’s wife by Group Captain Kenneth Rampling, the Commanding Officer of No. 7 Squadron. He was himself killed on operations a few weeks later, in March 1944.

Typescript letter with crest embossed in top left corner, Crown

Caterpillar Club card of Sergeant Leonard Clarke

Archives, London, Hangar Five, AC95/45/9

The Caterpillar Club awards membership to people whose lives have been saved by baling out of a stricken aircraft using an Irvin parachute. This is Sergeant Leonard Clarke’s membership card.

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German language prisoner record card for Sergeant Leonard Clarke

Archives, London, Hangar Five, AC95/45/8

This record card for Sergeant Leonard Clarke was raised at his POW camp, Stalag IVB. It shows that he arrived there on 28 January 1944.

Typescript postcard with text entered, RAF Museum

35 Wing, 1944

Archives, In Storage, X003-8865/005

This report covers work of 35 Wing during the battle in and around the Falaise pocket in July and August 1944.

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VE Day Thank God.....And now mine’s a pint!!!

Archives, In Storage, X005-4895/001

Serving in the Royal Air Force as a pilot at the time, Flight Lieutenant Chance recorded his reaction to Victory in Europe in his flying logbook.

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