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Squadron Leader: Sweeps over France

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1873

Incomplete recording in which a Spitfire pilot describes a sortie during which he escorted a formation of bombers to Lille.

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Attack on Bethune - Pilot Officer S. Newborough

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6375

Recording in which a Pilot Officer Newborough, Blenheim crewman, describes a daylight raid on Bethune, escorted by Spitfires and Hurricanes.

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Stirling loses its turret - Flight Sergeant Whitney

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1889

Recording in which a Stirling pilot tells how he was attacked by a night fighter, ditched in the English Channel and was subsequently picked up by an air-sea rescue launch.

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Bomber evasion tactics, Spitfire versus Stirling

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/34

Film in which animated diagrams and film taken from the perspectives of a fighter pilot and bomber’s gunner show how a bomber aircraft can manoeuvre to avoid a fighter attack.

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Fighter Pilots - Operations over Northern France

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3400

Recording in which several Spitfire pilots make brief comments on a bomber escort sortie to Bethune, during which several Messerschmitt 109s were destroyed in exchange for no British casualties.

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Flight Lieutenant Miles - Bomber that hit the sea

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6382

Flight Lieutenant Miles describes an attack by Blenheims on a German merchant ship off the French coast. During the raid his aeroplane hit the sea, returning home despite damage.

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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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