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Recorded interview with Leading Aircraftswoman Theo Moore, 17 February 2020

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5638

Theo Moore (nee Acheson) was a Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) plotter during the Second World War. She gives detail on her work, including the plotting of V-1 flying bombs.

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Recorded account of RAF service by Aubrey Venables, circa 2000

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6779

Recorded account of RAF service by Aubrey Venables, who joined the RAF in 1934 as an apprentice clerk and served in various administrative and leadership roles until retirement in 1966.

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Papers of Mrs Mabel Simmons nee Castle 1941-1990

Archives, In Storage, X008-7611

Collection of papers relating to the service of Mabel Simmons nee Castle, who served as an accounting officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and then as a Chaplains' Assistant with the Churches' Work for Women in the Forces.

Papers of Mrs Mabel Simmons nee Castle 1941-1990 | X008-7611, Royal Air Force Museum

Formal photograph of Assistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan

Photographs, In Storage, PC76/24/24

Noor Inayat Khan was a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Recruited as a Special Operation Executive agent she became the first female wireless operator to be sent from the UK into occupied France to aid the French Resistance during the Second World War. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross in 1949 for 'most conspicuous courage, both moral and physical over a period of more than 12 months.'

Portrait of a young woman in uniform, RAF Museum

Recorded interview with Leading Aircraftswoman Lillian Taylor, 20 January 2007

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6756/005

Leading Aircraftswoman Lillian Taylor’s work during and after the Second World War related to providing information on missing RAF aircrew to their next of kin as further detail became available.

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Recorded interview with Joyce Cesarani, 27 March 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6741

Recorded interview with Joyce Cesarani, who served as a Women’s Auxiliary Air Force driver and Educational and Vocational Training instructor at RAF Portreath during and after the Second World War.

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Other Ranks, Cap Badge 1919 Pattern

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 68/U/254

Usually worn on the centre of a peeked cap or the side of a field service cap, this badge was common to all Other Ranks up to and including the rank of Flight Sergeant.

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WAAF in air raids - Section Officer Hanbury

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6353

Recording in which Section Officer Felicity Hanbury (later Peake), a Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) officer, describes air raids on RAF Biggin Hill.

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RAF air ambulance orderlies flying log book of LACW Lilian F. Eastman, 1944-1945

Archives, In Storage, DC75/60/42

This is a logbook which belonged to Leading Aircraftwoman Lilian Eastman of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. Following D-Day she served as a Nursing Orderly for Allied casualties.

RAF air ambulance orderlies flying log book of LACW Lilian F. Eastman, 1944-1945 | DC75/60/42, RAF Museum

Recording in which Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie describes a bombing raid, circa 1970

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/70

Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie, a veteran of Bomber Command, describes the sequence of events that took place before, during and after an RAF bombing raid during the Second World War.

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