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Recorded interview with Raymond Hankin, 18 June 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6750

Recorded interview with Ray Hankin, who served as an air traffic control operations clerk at RAF Debden during his national service. He describes the role and operations from RAF Debden.

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Observer Corps, Seaborne, shoulder title

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, X004-2050

These shoulder badges were provided to the Observer Corps members who volunteered to serve on Royal Navy ships during the D-Day landings.

Printed in pale blue on a curved patch of black cotton, SEABORNE within a border, RAF Museum

31 Group, Ptn 1970s

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, X004-2084

1st edition of Air Ministry Pamphlet AMP 31 ‘Memorandum as to departmental procedure regarding applications for visits by foreign service aircraft’. Issued by the Air Ministry January 1935

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Recorded interview with Master Aircrew Paul Challice, 18 September 2018

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4799

Interview with Paul Challice, who was a radio operator in Beverley transport aircraft and as crewman, winchman and winch operator in Wessex, Whirlwind and Sea King search and rescue helicopters.

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Air Defence of Great Britain: Instructions for observer posts 1938

Library, In Storage, 001047

At the start of the Second World War the UK had a highly developed air defence network which was dependent on information gathering and dissemination. Providing commanders with timely intelligence with which to make decisions and deploy their forces accordingly.

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Defence of Great Britain against air attack: Handbook for plotters at an observer centre

Library, In Storage, R009787

At the start of the Second World War the UK had a highly developed air defence network which was dependent on information gathering and dissemination. Providing commanders with timely intelligence with which to make decisions and deploy their forces accordingly.

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Plotting Counters

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 75/I/536

Plotting blocks and counters were used in Operations Rooms in the Second World War and particularly in the Battle of Britain to track the movements of incoming formations of enemy aircraft.

Nine counters in three shapes: a circle, an arrow and an arrowhead each in red, yellow and blue, © RAF Museum

Battle of Britain Royal Air Force exhibition, Horse Guards' Parade and Air Ministry Whitehall, 12-18 September 1960

Library, In Storage, X006-4202

Souvenir brochure for the 1960 Battle of Britain week on Horse Guards Parade and in the Air Ministry, Whitehall commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Britain

Illustration of blue sky, white cliffs, green field, blue sea and yellow sand with red and black text against the sky, Royal Air Force Museum

The origin and history of the Observer Corps

Library, In Storage, X004-3041

Air Ministry Pamphlet No.48, 3rd edition, July 1938

Printed pamphlet, Crown

Royal Observer Corps, Rottingdean by Roland Vivian Pitchforth, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1900

As an Official War Artist, Roland Vivian Pitchforth undertook many commissions through the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War. This watercolour shows a Royal Observer Corps observation post. It was commissioned by the Admiralty as part of a series representing naval vessels and subjects related to maritime warfare around the British coastline.

Roland Vivian Pitchforth watercolour of Royal Observer Corps observers at an observation post in Rottingdean, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum