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Recorded interview with Flying Officer Jack Thompson, 20 April 2022

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7338

Interview with Jacob 'Jack' Thompson, who completed national service as a pilot between 1948 and 1951. He remembers the experience of flying Spitfire aircraft with 603 Squadron at RAF Turnhouse.

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Royal Air Force at home: Saturday, 14 September, 1957 - RAF station Turnhouse

Library, In Storage, X005-3419

One shilling souvenir programme, with a lucky number, for the ‘At Home’ held at Royal Air Force Turnhouse, Edinburgh during Battle of Britain Week, Saturday 14 September 1957.

Mottled cream page with black text giving lists of aircraft and the time they would take part in flying programme, Royal Air Force Museum

Recorded interview with Senior Aircraftsman Douglas Anthony Charles Smith, 25 March 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6794/008

Douglas Smith completed his RAF national service as a fighter plotter. He remembers work at 11 Group Southern Sector Operations Centre at RAF Sopley and detachments to several different stations.

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Recording of an interview with Group Captain Leonard Snaith, 14 October 1975

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/42

Interview with Group Captain Leonard Somerville Snaith, who served in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force as a draughtsman, aero-engine fitter and pilot from 1917.

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