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RAF gun-camera films - attacks on enemy shipping and ground targets, July 1942

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/325

Gun camera footage taken from Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft during engagements with German aircraft and attacks on ground targets in Europe and ships in the English Channel and North Sea.

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Flying Officer Petri - The Flying Dutchman

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1877

A Dutch navigator serving in the RAF describes an attack on a convoy of German merchant ships, during which his Hudson was hit and his wireless operator was injured.

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Pilot Officers Milson & Careless - eleven and a half hours in a dinghy

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1896

Recording in which the pilot and rear gunner of a bomber describe a raid on Berlin and their subsequent ditching in the North Sea.

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Squadron Leader Hibberd

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6354

Recording in which Squadron Leader Hibberd, a Beaufort pilot, gives an account of a torpedo attack on a German convoy in the North Sea.

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For those in peril - Pilot Officer Douglas Vickers & Flight Sergeant Jack Newcombe

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1897

Partially dramatised account of a bomber’s ditching in the North Sea and the subsequent rescue of the crew.

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Recorded interview with Group Captain David Forsyth, 7 February 2023

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7374

David Forsyth served as an equipment officer, working in support of Victor air-to-air refuelling tanker aircraft, Jaguar and Tornado aircraft and Puma helicopters. He was station commander at RAF Quedgely.

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