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Study for 'Take Off': Flight Engineer Alexander Quadling by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01199

This detailed preparatory study of Flight Sergeant Alexander Quadling, a Flight Engineer, is one of many large drawings Knight made for the painting ‘Take Off’ (1943, Imperial War Museums), in which she represented a Stirling bomber crew at RAF Mildenhall preparing for flight.

Study for 'Take Off': Flight Engineer Alexander Quadling by Dame Laura Knight, graphite on paper, 1943, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAF Museum

Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant George Bainbridge Sledmere, 18 September 2017

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3390

Recorded interview with George Sledmere, who served as a gunner in Bomber Command during the Second World War. He describes various aspects of bombing operations against Germany and occupied Europe.

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Bristol Bulldog Mk IIAs flying past during the Royal Jubilee Review, RAF Mildenhall, 1935

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/5518/10

As part of the King George V's Silver Jubilee on 6 July, 1935, the RAF chose RAF Station Mildenhall as one of two venues to host a royal review of the RAF. A third of the RAF's entire strength – 38 squadrons with 370 aircraft – took part in the royal review.

Cameramen film aircraft flying overhead at RAF Mildenhall, 1935, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection