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Recorded interview with Sergeant Frederick Victor Bashford, 21 February 2018

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4772

Vic Bashford served as an RAF electrician during the Second World War, including participation in the Battle of France, Battle of Britain and 151 Wing’s deployment to Russia in 1941.

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Recorded interview with Leading Aircraftswoman Theo Moore, 17 February 2020

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5638

Theo Moore (nee Acheson) was a Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) plotter during the Second World War. She gives detail on her work, including the plotting of V-1 flying bombs.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Bernard Alan Lacy, 6 April 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4834

Interview with Alan Lacy, who served as an RAF pilot in Sunderland flying boats during the Second World War. He describes attacks on German U-boats in the Bay of Biscay.

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Supermarine Walrus on HMS Suffolk

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6306

Film in which Supermarine Walrus amphibious aircraft are seen on an airfield and in flight. RAF and Royal Navy personnel and several warships are shown in harbour and at sea.

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An Introduction to the Nimrod

Film & Sound, In Storage, X002-6099

Film showing Nimrod MR1 maritime patrol aircraft in the air and on the ground as the roles of crew members are explained and the use of equipment carried is illustrated.

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Recorded interview with Group Captain Thomas Eeles, 29 June 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3305

Recorded interview with Tom Eeles, who served as a pilot in Canberras in Germany, in Buccaneers of the RAF and Royal Navy and as an instructor at Brawdy and Honington.

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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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Coronation Procession of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2 June 1953

Film & Sound, In Storage, X002-6072

Film in which the coronation procession of Queen Elizabeth II is seen leaving Buckingham Palace and proceeding along the Mall and through Admiralty Arch, accompanied by British and Commonwealth personnel.

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Amateur film taken in Aden by Group Captain Philip H. Wood, reel two, 1936-1938

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6708/002

Amateur film shows RAF, Royal Navy, British Army and locally-recruited personnel parading for King George VI’s birthday. Vickers Vincent aircraft pass overhead and the Bakri Idd religious festival takes place.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant James Grant Meiklejohn, 28 April 1996

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3344

James Meiklejohn trained as a pilot in Spitfires, Mustangs and gliders during the Second World War. He explains how, due to the end of the war, he didn’t fly operationally.

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