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Excavating Tunnel for RAF Control Rooms: Maltese Miners by Leslie Cole, oil on canvas.

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1834

After selling numerous Home Front pictures to the War Artists’ Advisory Committee, Cole was appointed an Official War Artist. For his first commission in 1943 he recorded the German Siege of Malta in its last months.

Excavating a tunnel for RAF Control Rooms: Maltese Miners by Leslie Cole, Crown copyright: expired / RAF Museum

Recorded interview with Senior Aircraftsman Leonard Payne, 11 June 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9946

Leonard Payne was an RAF storeman during the 1950s, including service at RAF Topcliffe, RAF Kinloss, a detachment to Malta and at sea onboard His Majesty’s Air Force Vessel Bridlington.

Image pending

Pilot's flying log book of Air Vice Marshal Henry Algernon Vickers Hogan, 1937-1943

Archives, In Storage, AC94/2/4

Henry Hogan was a member of the Long Range Development Units, that in December 1938 broke the world non-stop distance record by flying from Ismailia, Egypt to Darwin, Australia. The aircraft that Hogan was piloting did not make Darwin, it landed in West Timor being short of fuel.

Pilot's flying log book, Crown

Recording of a conversation with Squadron Leader J Miles, 1981

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/29

Recorded conversation with Squadron Leader J Miles - an RAF engineering officer - and several unidentified people at the RAF Museum Hendon.

Image pending

Recorded interview with Air Vice Marshal Andrew Roberts, 26 February 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4827

Interview with Andrew Roberts, who served as a pilot in Shackleton and Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft in the UK and Malta. He commanded 236 Operational Conversion Unit and RAF Kinloss.

Image pending

Recorded interview with Wing Commander Thomas Francis Neil, 8 December 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3325

Tom Neil served as a pilot in Hurricane and Spitfire aircraft during the Battle of Britain and after in the UK and Malta during and after the Second World War.

Image pending

Recorded interview with Sergeant Geoff Supple, 24 February 2023

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7375

Interview with Geoff Supple, who served as an RAF aircraft instrument mechanic working on Vulcan bomber aircraft with 101 Squadron at RAF Waddington and Chipmunk training aircraft at RAF Bicester.

Image pending

Vickers Valetta C.2 (VX577) of 70 Squadron at Malta, n.d.

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/139/98

The Vickers Valetta was designed as a military transport version of the Vickers Viking to specification C.9/46 with more powerful Bristol Hercules radial engines.

Side view of a light-coloured monoplane on the ground, RAF Museum