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Recording of an interview with Wing Commander R D Pexton, 30 December 1977

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/32

Interview with Wing Commander R D Pexton who served as a pilot in the RAF before and during the Second World War, flying Spitfires, Gladiators, Hurricanes, Stirlings and Lancasters.

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Flight Lieutenant Storey - RAF fighters over the Channel

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6425

Recording in which Flight Lieutenant Storey describes an engagement between the Hurricanes of his squadron and a formation of Junkers 87s over Dover.

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Recorded interview with Captain Eric Melrose Brown, 3 December 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6791

Recorded interview with Eric Brown, who served as a pilot with the Fleet Air Arm and as a test pilot, working on deck landing and the testing of captured aircraft.

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Luftwaffe officer and family, circa 1942

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-2234

Amateur film in which a Luftwaffe officer is seen on a street, walking in a park and sitting around a table with a number of other people, apparently his family.

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Operations Room sequence

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3375

Film showing a post-war reconstruction of a Battle of Britain fighter operations room, in which plotters and controllers follow the events of 15 September 1940. Archive footage illustrates aerial combat.

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Squadron Leader Birch - Sunderland pilot

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1968

Recording in which Squadron Leader Birch, an Australian Sunderland pilot, describes an engagement between his aeroplane and two Junkers 88s over the Atlantic.

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Sergeant Bell - Raid on Bremen

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6344

Recording in which Sergeant Bell, an air gunner, gives an account of a raid on Bremen, during which several night fighter attacks were driven off.

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Squadron Leader Bartley

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6439

Squadron Leader Bartley gives an account of air operations in Tunisia and explains why he enjoys fighting in North Africa.

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Air Marshal Sir Richard Peck

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1949

Recording in which Air Marshal Sir Richard Peck summarises the achievements of the British, US and Commonwealth Air Forces during 1943.

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Stirling versus three enemy fighters - Flight Sergeant Waddicar

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1892

Flight Sergeant Waddicar, a gunner in a Short Stirling, describes his return from a raid on Bremen, with the aeroplane damaged, the wireless operator injured and the rear gunner killed.

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