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Combat reports of No. 242 Squadron for 17 October 1940

Archives, X008-5400/094/047

Combat report of an engagement with a Dornier do 17 by Red Section of No. 242 Squadron of the coast near Yarmouth, 17 October 1940.

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Combat report of No. 145 Squadron for 12 October 1940

Archives, In Storage, X008-5400/060/010

Combat reports were official documents detailing operational encounters with enemy aircraft. They convey both the mental strain of operations and the sense of excitement when victory claims were made

Single page typescript report, Crown ©

Combat Report of No. 3 Squadron for 25 July 1940

Archives, In Storage, X008-5400/003/004

Combat reports were official documents detailing operational encounters with enemy aircraft. They convey both the mental strain of operations and the sense of excitement when victory claims were made.

typescript document, Crown © / Crown

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding’s “No more fighters to France” letter to the Under Secretary of State for Air, 16 May 1940

Archives, In Storage, AC71/17/15

Letter from Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding to the Under Secretary of State for Air, stressing the need to stop sending fighter aircraft to France to preserve resources to face attacks on Britain, 16 May 1940

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Air defence pamphlet number five: The operational control of fighter aircraft

Library, In Storage, X008-6060

Air Publication No.3145/5

Crown

Squadron Leader J.G. Carver

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1866

Recording in which Squadron Leader Carver describes various aspects of low level ground attack sorties flown in Spitfires against factories in France.

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Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1994

Recording in which Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas lists the achievements of 74 Squadron during the Second World War.

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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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With the Eagle Squadron

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1954

Recording in which an Eagle Squadron pilot describes his experiences of defensive and offensive Fighter Command operations.

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Flight Lieutenant Clapin

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1986

Recording in which Flight Lieutenant Clapin describes a low-level Mustang sortie over Holland and Germany.

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