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Wireless station, Middle East, 1941-1942
Photographs, In Storage, P032227
Oblique aerial view of a wireless mast.
Portrait photograph of Wing Commander Kenneth John Lawson
Photographs, In Storage, P032224
Lawson completed over 100 operational sorties before his death on 3 January 1945 during an operation to Nuremberg. This portrait was likely taken in 1944 when Lawson held the rank of acting Wing Commander
Aircraft moving by road, Middle East, 1941-1942
Photographs, In Storage, P032228
General view of convoy of lorries with dismantled Hawker Hurricanes on them.
Hawker Hurricane Mk IIb's of 151 Wing at Vaenga during Operation Benedict, 1941
Photographs, In Storage, P031210
In 1941, an unusual RAF mission was launched. Operation Benedict saw No. 151 Wing Royal Air Force, with two squadrons of Hawker Hurricane fighters, deploy to Vaenga in the Northern part of the Soviet Union, inside the Arctic Circle.
Nose of Sepecat Jaguar GR.1A XZ375, "The Guardian Reader", Muharraq, 2 March 1991
Photographs, In Storage, P031686
This photograph was taken while the Jaguars from RAF Coltishall were deployed on Operation GRANBY, the codename given to the British military response to liberate Kuwait after Saddam Hussein's invasion in 1990.
Short Sunderland MR.5 (NS-D) of 201 Squadron delivering supplies during the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949
Photographs, In Storage, P031129
The Berlin Airlift was the first major confrontation between the East and the West during the Cold War. It was known as Operation 'Plainfare' by the British and Operation 'Vittles' by the Americans.
Main Gate of RAF Wahn, around 1954
Photographs, In Storage, P032247
The main gate of RAF Wahn in West Germany, one of the airfields operated by the RAF during their occupation of Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Cold War.
The crew of NO. 9 Squadron RAF Lancaster Mk I W4964/WS-J 'Johnny Walker', 31 July 1944
Photographs, In Storage, P032502
A Lancaster crew pose beneath 'Johnny Walker', with its decorated nose showing that this aircraft had already completed over 100 missions when this photograph was taken.
Avro 504N (J9433), port front view in flight over Canterbury, 1929
Photographs, P100831
Avro 504N (J9433) of the Oxford University Air Squadron in flight over Canterbury, 1929.
Avro 504N (J9433), port front view from above, in flight over countryside near Manston, 1929
Photographs, P100833
Avro 504N (J9433) of the Oxford University Air Squadron in flight over countryside near Manston, 1929
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