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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 Arthur Spencer, 22 May 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7423

Arthur Spencer was a navigator in Lancaster bomber aircraft of 97 Squadron, including raids on Peenemünde and Berlin. In Dakota transport aircraft, he participated in the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949.

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An Officer from Trinidad, 319: Sqdn Ldr Philip Louis Ulrich Cross DFC, DSO by Edith Honor Earl, chalk on paper

Fine Art, 1944, In Storage, FA00930

Known as Ulrich, Philip Louis Ulric Cross (1917-2013) arrived in Britain from Trinidad and Tobago in November 1941 and trained as a navigator, after which he was commissioned as an officer and assigned to No. 139 (Jamaica) Squadron, based at RAF Marham.

Bust length coloured chalk portrait of an officer from Trinidad, facing forward without cap, wearing RAF uniform with Observer's brevet, DSO and DFC ribbons plus Pathfinders badge. Small associative landscape drawing of Trinidad in upper right corner of composition., RAF Museum

Navigator's flying log book of Flight Lieutenant Frederick William Arthur Hendry, 29 June 1942-8 May 1945

Archives, 29 JUN 1942-08 MAY 1945, In Storage, X003-9938/009

Flight Lieutenant Hendry served as a navigator in the RAF, flying two tours of operations firstly with No. 467 Squadron and then No. 97 Squadron. After the war he remained in the RAF and was instrumental in setting up 'RAF News', the RAF's newspaper which is still published to this day.

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Certificate of award of Pathfinder Badge to Flg Off Leslie Arnold Cox, 20 February 1945

Archives, In Storage, A344

In February 1945, Flying Officer Leslie Arnold Cox received a letter from AVM Don Bennett, advising him that he had qualified for the Path Finder Force Badge.

Typescript letter with signature of Don Bennett in ink at bottom right, Crown

Collection of miscellaneous papers and photographs relating to the RAF service of Flight Lieutenant Frederick William Arthur Hendry, 1943-1999

Archives, Circa 1943-1999, In Storage, X003-9938/010

Flight Lieutenant Hendry served as a navigator in the RAF, flying two tours of operations firstly with No. 467 Squadron and then No. 97 Squadron. After the war he remained in the RAF and was instrumental in setting up 'RAF News', the RAF's newspaper which is still published to this day.

Collection of miscellaneous papers and photographs relating to the RAF service of Flight Lieutenant Frederick William Arthur Hendry, 1943-1999 | X003-9938/010

Framed case of medals awarded to Wing Commander Kenneth John Lawson

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1992/0423/D

Wing Commander Kenneth John Lawson had participated in over 100 operational sorties before his Avro Lancaster was destroyed during an operation to attack Nuremberg on 3 January 1945.

Seven medals in a frame with a silver plaque giving presentation details. The medals include a DSO (bar) and DFC, RAF Museum

Medal Bar of Flight Lieutenant Frederick William Arthur Hendry

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, X008-8787

The DFC was awarded to Hendry on completion of a tour of operations and following his navigating a severely disabled aircraft back to the UK after severe icing resulted in the loss of engines and height over enemy territory.

Medal bar comprising: DFC, 1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star (France-Germany clasp), Defence Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, RAF Museum

A yank in the RCAF

Archives, In Storage, B2445

This is the memoir of American Major Hubert Knilans of No. 617 Squadron detailing his time in the RCAF. He flew in Operation Taxable, a deception operation leading up to D-Day.

A yank in the RCAF | B2445

Recording of recollections by Mr J Johnson, 6 June 1978

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/56

Recording of recollections by Mr J Johnson, a veteran of 101 Squadron who describes his experiences of night raids over France and Germany.

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