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Recorded interview with Warrant Officer Bill Evans, 16 September 2022

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7351

Interview with Bill Evans, who served as an RAF airframe fitter on Washington, Canberra and Valiant bomber aircraft. He participated in British nuclear weapons testing in Australia and the Pacific.

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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader John Brown, 31 January 2023

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7373

Interview with John Brown, who was a pilot in Victor air-to-air refuelling tanker aircraft and worked as a test pilot during air-to-air refuelling trials for the Tornado and Hercules aircraft.

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Royal Air Force Balloon Command, November 1938-June 1945

Archives, In Storage, B3054

Ring binder of typescript sheets, photographs and memoirs regarding the history and operations of Balloon Command during the Second World War complied by Flight Lieutenant William Forks.

Typescript sheets bound in blue A4 ring-binder., Typescript sheets bound in blue A4 ring-binder.

Recorded interview with Warrant Officer Arthur Taylor, 9 May 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6744

Arthur Taylor served as an RAF ground wireless operator and fitter during and after the Second World War. He fought in France in 1940 and was safely evacuated from Dunkirk.

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Recorded interview with Gordon Samuel Stringer, 24 May 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6747

Gordon Stringer served as an instrument mechanic from 1958 to 1961, working on Handley Page Victor bomber aircraft of 15 Squadron at RAF Cottesmore and Vampire T.11s at RAF Swinderby.

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Transcript of the diary of Leading Aircraftman John Spalding of 119, 102 & 117 Air Ministry Experimental Stations (AMES), 1944-1945

Archives, In Storage, X006-1396

14 page typescript memoir.

Transcript of the diary of Leading Aircraftman John Spalding of 119, 102 & 117 Air Ministry Experimental Stations (AMES), 1944-1945 | X006-1396

Recording of an interview with Ronald Fuller, 27 May 1975

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC76/1

Interview with Ronald Charles Fuller, who flew in Fairey Battles in France in 1940 and later in flying boats. He was a ground engineer with 463, 467 and 617 Squadrons.

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Front page of "Sunday Pictorial" entitled "R101 funeral memorial number", 12 October 1930

Archives, In Storage, AC86/62/2

The R101 crash was a disaster that caused shock around the world. Many newspapers covered the mass funeral for the victims. The Sunday Pictorial (later to become The Sunday Mirror) produced a ‘R101 Funeral Memorial Number’.

Front page of newspaper image of coffins in large square hole. Guard of honour visible and priest conducting service., Trinity Mirror Group