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Pilot Officer Macdonald - a Wellington crashes

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1865

Recording in which Pilot Officer MacDonald tells the story of a Wellington crash during a snow storm in a remote area.

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Bringing back a Hampden - Pilot Officer W.B. Brown

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1854

Recording in which Pilot Officer Brown explains how he brought a badly damaged Hampden back to England on one engine following a raid.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant George Bainbridge Sledmere, 18 September 2017

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3390

Recorded interview with George Sledmere, who served as a gunner in Bomber Command during the Second World War. He describes various aspects of bombing operations against Germany and occupied Europe.

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Recorded interview with Aircraftsman 1st Class Henry William Hodgson, 5 April 2018

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4782

Interview with Harry Hodgson, who served as an airframe fitter with 10 Squadron at RAF Melbourne during the Second World War. He gives an account of work and social life.

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Medal Bar of Pilot Officer Robert Alan Marshall

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1997/0384/D

Robert Alan Marshall trained in Canada as a navigator. Marshall joined the RAF as a Sergeant, before being promoted to Pilot Officer, and served with Nos. 12 and 619 Squadrons. Marshall was later seconded to BOAC.

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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 13, Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1998/0274/D

Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. He became Air Officer Commanding in both Iraq and India in the 1930s.

Bar of 13 metal and enamel medals suspended from coloured ribbons, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAFM/Iain Duncan

Fire damaged flying helmet wiring loom of Sergeant John Hannah, VC

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 82/U/789

This wiring loom shows signs of fire damage from the blaze which engulfed Handley Page Hampden P1355 after it was hit by anti-aircraft fire when bombing invasion barges in 1940.

John Hannah's fire damaged flying helmet wiring loom, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Wing Commander Bower - Air raid on Nantes

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1833

Recording in which a bomber pilot describes an attack on the docks on the River Loire.

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Pilot Officer Mitchell - Stirlings outfight Messerschmitts

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1840

Recording in which Pilot Officer Mitchell, a Short Stirling’s tail gunner, describes an attack on German shipping and evasive action taken when engaged by German fighters.

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