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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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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Niall Rath, 28 January 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7414

Interview with Niall Rath, who served as an electrical and instrument fitter, air electronics operator in Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft and a crewman in Sea King search and rescue helicopters.

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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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Recorded interview with Master Aircrew Bob Pountney, 28 April 2021

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5666

Bob Pountney served as an air quartermaster in Britannia transport aircraft and a winchman in Whirlwind, Wessex and Sea King helicopters. He describes various aspects of search and rescue operations.

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Lockheed Hudson story by Squadron Leader D.P. Marvin

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6371

Recording in which Squadron Leader Marvin gives details of the various operations undertaken by an individual Lockheed Hudson.

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Beaufighter versus Messerschmitt - Pilot Officer Sherwood

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1952

Pilot Officer Sherwood describes an encounter between Beaufighters and Messerschmitts; while evading and drawing the Germans further from their bases one Messerschmitt misjudged a dive and crashed into the 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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Wing Commander A.C. Brown - Attack on German convoy

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1874

Recording in which Wing Commander Brown describes a Beaufighter squadron’s attack on a German convoy off the Dutch coast.

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Sergeant Cleaver - Bombing a German ship

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1967

Recording in which Sergeant Cleaver, a Canadian bomb-aimer, briefly describes his training in Canada before giving an account of an attack on a German supply ship off the Dutch coast.

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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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