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Raid on Emden - 31/1/42

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1860

Recording in which the rear gunner of a Handley Page Hampden describes a raid on Emden and the low temperatures experienced during night bombing operations.

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Recorded interview with Sergeant Benjamin Dixon, 15 May 2018

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4842

Ben Dixon was a wireless operator and air gunner in Hampden aircraft during the Second World War. While minelaying off the French coast he was shot down and taken prisoner.

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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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Moonlight Voyage: Hampden Flying Above the Clouds by Paul Nash, lithograph

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01315

This lithograph was published by the National Gallery and the Ministry of Information after an original watercolour by Paul Nash from his series ‘Aerial Creatures’, commissioned through the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC) for the Air Ministry in 1940.

Moonlight Voyage: Hampden Flying Above the Clouds by Paul Nash, lithograph, Crown copyright: expired. / RAF Museum