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Recorded interview with Warrant Officer Ernest Allen, 10 September 2021

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5681

Interview with Ernie Allen, who served as a pilot in Spitfire and Typhoon aircraft during the Second World War. He describes search and rescue operations and sweeps over occupied Europe.

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Amateur footage of RAF and other aircraft at Goose Bay, Canada, 1964-1965 reel 4

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9939/004

Amateur film taken at Goose Bay in Canada shows curling and deep snow around buildings. Several CF-100 Canuck fighter aircraft and Avro Vulcan bomber aircraft are seen on the ground.

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An Officer from Ottawa, Canada, 270: AM Breadner by Edith Honor Earl, chalk on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00924

By the Second World War, Lloyd Samuel Bredner (1894-1952) held an illustrious career, having served as a fighter pilot in the First World War with the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in No. 3 (Naval) Squadron, receiving the Distinguished Service Cross for his gallantry, then in the interwar period working as Controller of Civil Aviation in his native Canada. In May 1940 he was appointed to the role of Chief of Air Staff in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in the rank of Air Vice-Marshal.

Coloured pastel portrait on paper of Air Marshal Breadner from Ottawa - bust length figure, frontally posed, wearing No.1 RAF uniform with Observer's brevet and DFC ribbon, without cap. Head resting on left hand. Small associative landscape drawing of Southern Rhodesia in upper right corner., RAF Museum

Recording in which Mr J A Griffin reads out entries from the diary of 5 Squadron RCAF, 1972

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/64

A researcher, Mr J A Griffin, reads out entries from the diary of 5 Squadron RCAF, based at RCAF Dartmouth, Nova Scotia dating from January 1939 to October 1941.

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Amateur footage of RAF and other aircraft at Goose Bay, Canada, 1964-1965 reel 1

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9939/001

Amateur film taken at Goose Bay in Canada shows RAF and US Air Force aircraft in the air and on the ground, including Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor bombers.

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Amateur footage of RAF and other aircraft at Goose Bay, Canada, 1964-1965 reel 2

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9939/002

Amateur film taken at Goose Bay in Canada shows RAF, US Air Force and Canadian aircraft in the air and on the ground, including Vulcan, Victor and Valiant bomber aircraft.

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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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Sergeant Cleaver - Bombing a German ship

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1967

Recording in which Sergeant Cleaver, a Canadian bomb-aimer, briefly describes his training in Canada before giving an account of an attack on a German supply ship off the Dutch coast.

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Saskatchewan pilot - Pilot Officer Wales

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6448

Recording in which Pilot Officer Wales, a Canadian, gives an account of an incident in which he and his crew evaded two German fighters while returning from a raid.

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Programme for RCAF Association Battle of Britain Commemorative Service, 1980

Archives, In Storage, A380

Royal Canadian Air Force Association programme commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

Front page of RCAF Association Battle of Britain Commemoration Service 1980 leaflet, Crown ©