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Recorded interview with Group Captain Jonathan Duncan Hutchinson, 29 October 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6790/004

Jonathan Hutchinson, who served as a pilot in Venom, Meteor, Javelin and Lightning aircraft in the UK and overseas. He was an instructor and commanded 5 Squadron with Lightning aircraft.

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Recorded interview with Air Vice Marshal George Philip Black, 20 January 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6790/015

George Black flew Meteor, Hunter and Lightning aircraft. He flew Royal Navy Sea Hawks in the Suez Crisis, was a Lightning instructor, commanded 111 and 5 Squadrons and RAF Wildenrath.

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Recorded interview with Wing Commander Martin Elis Bee, 13 November 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6790/006

Martin Bee served as a pilot in Hawker Hunter, Lightning and U-2 aircraft. He comments on various aspects of Lightning operations, and his roles as a flight and squadron commander.

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Recorded interview with Wing Commander Andrew Walters, 8 August 2017

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3382

Andrew Walters was an RAF pilot in Tornado GR1 and GR4 aircraft during the 1980s and 1990s, including the 1991 Gulf War and later operations over the Balkans and Iraq.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant John Stansfield, 18 October 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7408

Interview with John Stansfield, who was a pilot in Victor bomber aircraft during the 1960s. He remembers flying in the Far East, the Cuban Missile Crisis and Cold War scrambles.

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Recorded interview with Flight Sergeant Trevor Birch, 25 August 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7420

Trevor Birch trained as an electronics engineer and worked on airfield and air defence radar and with Rapier surface-to-air missiles at various locations in the UK and the Falkland Islands.

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United Kingdom Joint Airborne Task Force

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/300

Film on the role, composition and capabilities of the UK Joint Airborne Task Force (UKJATFOR). Senior RAF and British Army officers give further information and an airborne exercise is shown.

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Recorded interview with Group Captain John Bell, 3 April 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6742/006

Interview with Group Captain John Bell, who flew as navigator in Hercules aircraft, including the Falkland Islands and Ethiopia. He also worked on trials projects and in various leadership roles.

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RAF Regiment recruits under training at Gatow, Berlin, 1947

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6158/1

The RAF Regiment was formed on 1 February 1942 in response to the RAF being given responsibility for defending its own airfields after the disastrous campaign in Crete. Its role was to seize, secure and defend airfields to enable air operations to take place.

Black and white image of RAF Regiment soldiers train to fire rifles on top of poles in the Gatow area of Berlin, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

The unquiet world - A ministerial broadcast by the Rt Hon Duncan Sandys MP, Minister of Defence

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/431

Film in which Duncan Sandys, defence minister, explains the aim of British defence policy in light of the communist threat, and outlines the UK’s world-wide defensive alliances and military deployments.

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