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Parachute drop - Flight Lieutenant Simpson

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6313

Flight Lieutenant Simpson gives an account of a battle over the south coast of England, during which he was forced to bale out after a dogfight with two German fighters.

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Medal Bar of Group Captain Geoffrey Brunner

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1993/0470/D

During the Battle of Britain Geoffrey Brunner served with No. 43 Squadron. On 26 August 1940 in a raid off Portsmouth he was attacked by a Messerschmitt Bf 109. With no radio, engine or hydraulics, covered in petrol and wounded in the ankle, he successfully made a wheels-up landing at RAF Tangmere.

Six medals on individual ribbons with different stripe patterns in multiple colours, © RAF Museum