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Recorded interview with Aircraftsman 2nd Class Raymond Marcus Janes, 26 February 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6794/004

Recorded interview with Raymond Janes, who completed RAF national service at Rheindahlen in Germany. He describes his work in the airmen’s mess stores, life in Germany and his post-service life.

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Recorded interview with Harry Silverman, 3 March 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6775

Harry Silverman was an airframe fitter in the UK and India and worked with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) in India during and immediately after the Second World War.

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Recorded interview with Warrant Officer Henry Irons, 18 August 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3310

Recorded interview with Harry Irons, who was a gunner in Lancaster and Halifax aircraft. He recalls bombing operations against targets in Germany and occupied Europe, anti-aircraft fire and fighter attacks.

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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

Recorded interview with Aircraftsman 1st Class Henry William Hodgson, 5 April 2018

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4782

Interview with Harry Hodgson, who served as an airframe fitter with 10 Squadron at RAF Melbourne during the Second World War. He gives an account of work and social life.

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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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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

Recorded interview with Corporal Geoffrey Roy Worner, 27 May 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6794/011

Geoff Worner completed his RAF national service as a personnel clerk. He describes training, life in Egypt, including the dangers faced by British personnel, and his role as a corporal.

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Recorded interview with Aircraftsman 1st Class Terence Beaney, 8 June 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6794/013

Terry Beaney completed RAF national service as an administration clerk. He describes his experience of working in 1 Squadron’s orderly room, including deployment to Cyprus for the 1956 Suez Crisis.

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Recorded interview with Senior Aircraftsman Ronald Charles Batchelor, 17 February 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6794/002

Recorded interview with Ron Batchelor, who completed RAF national service as a radio telephone direction finding operator. He describes his UK service at RAF Tangmere and in Germany at Schleswig-Holstein.

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