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Recorded interview with Raymond Hankin, 18 June 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6750

Recorded interview with Ray Hankin, who served as an air traffic control operations clerk at RAF Debden during his national service. He describes the role and operations from RAF Debden.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Jimmy James, 13 July 2023

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7384

Interview with Jimmy James, who flew Kittyhawk aircraft with 450 Squadron in Italy during the Second World War. He was shot down and made prisoner of war by German forces.

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Recording of an interview with William Patrick Elms, part one, 26 June 1974

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/11

Interview with William Patrick Elms, who served in the Royal Navy, the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force between 1908 and 1929.

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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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Recordings of a speech by Winston Churchill, the opening of 615 Squadron’s new headquarters and the story of a B.E.2c propeller

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC76/3

Three recordings: A speech made by Sir Winston Churchill at RAF Biggin Hill; the opening of 615 Squadron's headquarters in Croydon; Air Vice Marshal Sowrey’s story of a B.E.2c propeller.

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The first one thousand - A radio impression of the raid on Cologne, May 30-31, 1942

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1878

Incomplete dramatised account of the first thousand bomber raid, on Cologne in May 1942. The recording covers planning at Bomber Command headquarters, preparations on one station and the raid itself.

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Recorded interview with Corporal Paul Brown, 11 January 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4815

Paul Brown served as an RAF photographer in the UK, in Singapore and in Berlin with the British Commander-in-Chief’s Mission to Soviet Forces in Germany, during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Recorded interview with Wing Commander Thomas Francis Neil, 8 December 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3325

Tom Neil served as a pilot in Hurricane and Spitfire aircraft during the Battle of Britain and after in the UK and Malta during and after the Second World War.

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Recorded interview with Corporal Stanley Bellman, 4 December 2020

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5659

Interview with Stan Bellman, who served as an RAF electrician in the UK and with 173 Squadron, operating Lockheed Lodestar aircraft, in the Middle East during the Second World War.

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Recorded interview with Warrant Officer Arthur Taylor, 9 May 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6744

Arthur Taylor served as an RAF ground wireless operator and fitter during and after the Second World War. He fought in France in 1940 and was safely evacuated from Dunkirk.

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