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Flying Officer Coker - rescue from a Portuguese ship

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1855

Flying Officer Coker explains how he was forced to ditch his Hudson in the sea near a Portuguese merchant ship. The crew were then transferred to a Royal Navy destroyer.

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Beaufort pilot and navigator

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6376

Recording in which a Beaufort pilot and his Canadian navigator give an account of a torpedo attack on a German pocket battleship off the coast of Norway.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Jack Robert Watchous, 11 June 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3301

Jack Watchous served as a wireless operator-air gunner in Avro Anson aircraft during the early part of the Second World War, including patrols over the evacuation beaches during Operation Dynamo.

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RAF Coastal Command attack beached destroyer - Kent Stevenson interviewing Wing Commander K. Gatwood; Flying Officer P. Dwornik and Wing Commander D. Lumsden

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1951

Recording in which Beaufighter crewmen describe an attack on a beached destroyer and a Lancaster pilot describes a forced landing on an advanced airfield in France.

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