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Flight Lieutenant Learoyd VC

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6309

Flight Lieutenant Roderick Learoyd describes a low-level night bombing raid on an aqueduct carrying the Dortmund-Ems Canal on 12 August 1940. For this action Learoyd was awarded the Victoria Cross.

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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader George Leonard Johnson, 29 May 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6748

Squadron Leader George “Johnny” Johnson, who was an air gunner and bomb-aimer with 97 Squadron and a bomb-aimer with 617 Squadron during the Second World War, including the dams raid.

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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