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Flight Lieutenant Learoyd VC

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6309

Flight Lieutenant Roderick Learoyd describes a low-level night bombing raid on an aqueduct carrying the Dortmund-Ems Canal on 12 August 1940. For this action Learoyd was awarded the Victoria Cross.

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Magnetic mine being loaded into the bomb bay of a Handley Page Hampden Mk I

Photographs, P021820

Minelaying operations, typically referred to as Gardening sorties, represented a considerable part of the RAF's activities throughout the Second World War. The first RAF airborne minelaying operation was completed by a Handley Page Hampden.

Cylindrical mine, on wheeled trolley, being loaded into open bomb bay under an aircraft., Crown