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Menu for VE-Day celebration dinner held at the Sergeants' Mess, RAF Khartoum, May 1945

Archives, MAY 1945, In Storage, X005-4846/008

Monochrome print menu featuring several cartoons around the edges.

Menu for VE-Day celebration dinner held at the Sergeants' Mess, RAF Khartoum, May 1945 | X005-4846/008

Order of service for a parade service held at HQ 12 Group, RAF Watnall, to celebrate Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945.

Archives, 08 MAY 1945, In Storage, X004-9410/003

Programme detailing the itinerary for a parade service held at the headquarters of 12 Group, RAF Watnall, celebrating VE Day, 8 May 1945.

HQ 12 Group RAF Watnall VE Day Order of Service, Crown ©

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 Flying Officer Joseph Sudell, 30 January 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4822

Joseph Sudell served as a navigator in Lancaster bomber aircraft at the end of the Second World War. He participated in air attacks on Dresden and Operations Manna and Exodus.

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Recorded interview with Senior Aircraftsman Raymond Harris, 17 October 2018

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4804

Interview with Raymond Harris, who was an RAF driver during the 1950s. He served at RAF North Weald, acted as driver for senior officers and travelled in convoy to Germany.

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Victory message to the Pathfinder Force from AVM Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett, 1945.

Archives, In Storage, A1272

VE Day victory message to the Pathfinder force from AVM Donald Bennett, 8 May 1945.

Victory message to the Pathfinder Force from AVM Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett, 1945, Crown ©

Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Arnold Pownall Lewis Greethurst, 23 June 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3304

Arnold ‘Al’ Greethurst served as a navigator in Lancaster, Lincoln, Mosquito, Brigand, Canberra and Vulcan aircraft during the earlier part of the Cold War, including the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Menu for VE day celebrations at RAF Boscombe Down, 1945.

Archives, In Storage, X003-6190/029

Souvenir menu for the VE Day celebrations at RAF Boscombe Down, 1945.

Front page of Boscombe Down VE day celebrations menu, Crown ©

Bristol Beaufighters of 252 Squadron flying over Athens during the Victory in Europe flypast, 1945

Photographs, In Storage, P023333

While news of the German surrender and Victory in Europe on 8 May 1945 was greeted with joy by the Allies, for many countries it did not mark the end of the fighting or the suffering.

Aircraft fly over the Parthenon in Athens as part of the VE Day celebrations, Please contact Museum Copyright Officer or Collection Curator before using this asset