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Recorded interview with Wing Commander David Roger Herriot, 19 September 2017

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3391

David Herriot served as a navigator in Buccaneer and Tornado GR.1 aircraft in the UK and Germany during the Cold War. He describes his experience of operations in both aircraft.

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RAF Eastcote collection - Operation Mayflight and Operation Matador, 1961

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC98/89

Film in which Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor bomber aircraft and Gloster Javelin and English Electric Lightning fighter aircraft are seen parked on the ground, taxiing and on take-off.

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Recorded interview with Senior Aircraftsman Jonathan Kenneth Lister Williams, 2 November 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3319

Jonathan Williams served in the Supply Branch during the 1980s and 1990s. During this time he served in Germany, and with the Tactical Supply Wing in Northern Ireland and Bosnia.

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Recorded interview with Corporal Brian Burgess, 10 December 2021

Film & Sound, X008-5688

Brian Burgess joined the RAF Police in the 1960s. He served in the UK, Singapore and in Berlin, guarded nuclear weapons and provided cover for a civilian fire brigade strike.

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Recorded interview with Group Captain Christopher Finn, 20 July 2017

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3379

Recorded interview with Chris Finn, who served as a navigator in Buccaneer aircraft with the Royal Navy and RAF, as a navigation instructor and as RAF Director of Defence Studies.

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Recorded interview with Corporal Tracy Footitt, 4 October 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9910

Tracy Footitt gives an account of her service with the RAF Police in Germany and the UK, and explains how she was discharged from the RAF due to her sexuality.

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Recorded interview with Corporal Niamh Underhill, 20 May 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9941/003

Niamh Underhill served with the RAF Police and remembers her participation in the 2023 evacuation of people from Sudan by RAF Atlas and C17 transport aircraft during Operation Polar Bear.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Kevin Bazeley, 6 September 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9909

Kevin Bazeley served as a navigator in VC10 transport aircraft and in Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, before being discharged from the RAF when his superiors discovered that he was gay.

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Recorded interview with Corporal Kenneth Wright, 3 October 2023

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9903

Ken Wright served in the RAF Police at RAF High Wycombe until being forced to leave the RAF due to his sexuality. He reflects on this and on subsequent changes.

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Recorded interview with Sergeant Gerald White, 25 February 2020

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5640

Gerry White served in the RAF Police from 1958 to 1981. He served in the Far East, Germany and the UK, providing security for RAF aircraft and investigating various offences.

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