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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Arthur Spencer, 22 May 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7423

Arthur Spencer was a navigator in Lancaster bomber aircraft of 97 Squadron, including raids on Peenemünde and Berlin. In Dakota transport aircraft, he participated in the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949.

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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader George Leonard Johnson, 29 May 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6748

Squadron Leader George “Johnny” Johnson, who was an air gunner and bomb-aimer with 97 Squadron and a bomb-aimer with 617 Squadron during the Second World War, including the dams raid.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Arnold Pownall Lewis Greethurst, 23 June 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3304

Arnold ‘Al’ Greethurst served as a navigator in Lancaster, Lincoln, Mosquito, Brigand, Canberra and Vulcan aircraft during the earlier part of the Cold War, including the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

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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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Recorded interview with Luke Toft, 9 November 2018

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4807

Recorded interview with Luke Toft, who was a civilian draughtsman with the Aircraft Torpedo Development Unit at Gosport during the Second World War. He describes various aspects of torpedo development.

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Recording of an interview with Wing Commander A.J. Edmunds, part two, 22 October 1981

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/10

Second part of an interview with Wing Commander Edmunds, in which he discusses his wartime RAF service as an engineering officer.

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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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Portrait of Wg Cdr Raymond Hilton DSO DFC* and group photograph of 83 Squadron

Archives, In Storage, B3932

‘Ray’ Hilton was the pilot of our Lancaster R5868 on the first of its 137 operations, to Wilhelmshaven on 8 July 1942. Hilton captained the aircraft on a further 17 operations.

Photographic protrait of an airman, Crown

Recording of an interview with Captain R C S Reid, 3 July 1979

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/37

Interview by Squadron Leader Jackson Dymond and Ian Scott-Hill with Captain R C S Reid, who worked as a civilian airline pilot before, during and after the Second World War.

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A yank in the RCAF

Archives, In Storage, B2445

This is the memoir of American Major Hubert Knilans of No. 617 Squadron detailing his time in the RCAF. He flew in Operation Taxable, a deception operation leading up to D-Day.

A yank in the RCAF | B2445