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Bomber over Germany

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-1798

Incomplete recording of a dramatised radio programme, in which bomber crews are heard preparing for a raid on an oil refinery at Bremen.

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RAF Armament Officer

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6394

Recording in which an RAF station armament officer describes aspects of his work.

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Flying Officer Hill - raid on Berlin

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6438

Recording in which Flying Officer Hill describes his experiences as a wireless operator during raids on Berlin.

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Polish airman on his career

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6392

Recording in which a Polish airman gives a brief account of his career as an RAF bomber crewman.

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RAF experiences - Flight Lieutenant Haworth

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1950

Recording in which Flight Lieutenant Haworth contrast the briefings, planning, aeroplanes and organisation of later Second World War bombing operations with the methods used earlier in the conflict.

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RAF experiences - Pilot Officer Beale

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6426

Recording in which Pilot Officer Beale, an air gunner, explains his responsibilities and describes a typical sequence of actions before and after take off and when over a target.

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Pilot Officers Milson & Careless - eleven and a half hours in a dinghy

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1896

Recording in which the pilot and rear gunner of a bomber describe a raid on Berlin and their subsequent ditching in the North Sea.

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Flying Officer Annandale - Attack on Rotterdam

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6395

Recording in which Flying Officer Annandale describes a low-level raid on the docks in Rotterdam.

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For those in peril - Pilot Officer Douglas Vickers & Flight Sergeant Jack Newcombe

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1897

Partially dramatised account of a bomber’s ditching in the North Sea and the subsequent rescue of the crew.

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Squadron Leader Widdowson talking on the gallantry that won Sergeant Ward the VC

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6389

Squadron Leader Widdowson, pilot of a 75 Squadron Wellington, explains how his second pilot, Sergeant James Ward on 7 July 1941 came to be awarded the Victoria Cross.

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