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Recorded interview with Wing Commander Andrew Walters, 8 August 2017

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3382

Andrew Walters was an RAF pilot in Tornado GR1 and GR4 aircraft during the 1980s and 1990s, including the 1991 Gulf War and later operations over the Balkans and Iraq.

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RAF occupation: History made in Kowloon operations on way to Okinawa, September 22 1945.

Archives, In Storage, X002-9325/003

Typescript with extracts from the South China Morning Post and the Hong Kong Telegraph, September 22 1945.

Typescript detailing Kowloon operations making their way on to Okinawa, Crown ©

RAF Regiment recruits under training at Gatow, Berlin, 1947

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6158/1

The RAF Regiment was formed on 1 February 1942 in response to the RAF being given responsibility for defending its own airfields after the disastrous campaign in Crete. Its role was to seize, secure and defend airfields to enable air operations to take place.

Black and white image of RAF Regiment soldiers train to fire rifles on top of poles in the Gatow area of Berlin, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection