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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Eleanor Lodge, 23 October 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9932

Eleanor Lodge served as an RAF Chinook pilot and describes her experience of deployments to Afghanistan, including an account of casualty evacuation flights with the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT).

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Lynn Hilditch, 23 February 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9934

Lynn Hilditch joined the Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) as an air traffic controller and served at various locations in the UK and Cyprus, with a break due to marriage.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Ian Shiells, 27 February 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9937

Ian Shiells trained as a workshop technician before commissioning as an officer. As a navigator he flew in Phantom aircraft, Puma helicopters, Hercules transport aircraft and Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Andrew Tonks, 25 June 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9923

Andrew Tonks describes his experience as an RAF Chinook helicopter pilot, including operations in Afghanistan. He remembers transport operations and casualty evacuation flights with the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT).

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Recorded interview with Sergeant Chris Bradshaw, 13 August 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9930

Chris Bradshaw describes his experience of RAF Sea King search and rescue helicopter operations in the UK and of the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT), using Chinook helicopters in Afghanistan.

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Recorded interview with Naomi Barnett, 16 September 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9915

Naomi Barnett was the first woman to fly solo with a university air squadron. She later served as an RAF air traffic controller and trained as a civilian airline pilot.

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Recorded interview with Flight Sergeant Peter Booth, 13 August 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9914

Pete Booth gives an account of his service as a crewman in Merlin helicopters in Iraq and Chinook helicopters in Afghanistan, including detail on his experience of casualty evacuation operations.

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Recorded interview with Wing Commander Jonathan Murnane, 18 April 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9905

Interview in which Jonathan Murnane discusses his experience as a navigator in Chinook helicopters, including Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan and casualty evacuation flights with the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT).

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Carol Honeybun-Kelly, 8 January 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9900

Carol Honeybun-Kelly was an RAF air traffic control officer, working with Tornado aircraft at the Tri-national Tornado Training Establishment at RAF Cottesmore and later at RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Marham.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Elizabeth Smith, 8 January 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9899

Liz Smith served as an air traffic control officer in the UK, with detachments to Belize, Iceland and Gibraltar. She discusses her experience as the wife of an RAF pilot.

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