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Invasion of Europe: Normandy Campaign - 1/ First pilot to land in France interviewed by Stewart MacPherson 2/ Evacuation of casualties by air - Leading Aircraftswoman Birbeck interviewed by Audrey Russell

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6427

Brief interviews with Leading Aircraftswoman Birbeck, a nursing orderly, and a Canadian pilot, both RAF participants in Operation Overlord.

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Recorded interview with Air Commodore Nigel Wood, 5 May 2021

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5668

Interview with Nigel Wood, who served as a Lightning pilot, as a test pilot and trained for a flight in the Space Shuttle before its cancellation following the Challenger disaster.

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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.

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Recorded interview with Corporal Joe Randall, 24 February 2020

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5639

Interview with Joe Randall, who served with 5022 Squadron of the RAF’s Airfield Construction Branch, working on advanced airfields during the battle for Normandy and the subsequent advance into Germany.

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35 Wing, 1944

Archives, In Storage, X003-8865/005

This report covers work of 35 Wing during the battle in and around the Falaise pocket in July and August 1944.

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US construction engineers laying metal strips on an airstrip in Normandy, 2 August 1944

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6014/12

US construction engineers laying metal strips on an airstrip in Normandy, 2 August 1944

General view of construction engineers laying metal strips on an airstrip, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

A Republic P-47 Thunderbolt being worked on by engineers at the Thunderbolt Maintenance Depot, Normandy, 26 August 1944

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6020/7

During the battle for Normandy that followed the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, the Allies relied on air power to help support their advance.

General view of striped down Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and spare parts amongst trees, with ground crews, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection