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Victoria Cross of Sergeant John Hannah

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 82/D/793

Sergeant John Hannah was just 18 years old when he was awarded the Victoria Cross for showing extraordinary courage and devotion to duty during a bombing operation in September 1940.

Reverse view of Victoria Cross of Sergeant John Hannah, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

RAF, Type G.22 Camera Gun

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 77/I/395

Type G.22 camera gun, produced by the Williamson Manufacturing Company Limited, London.

RAF, Type G.22 Camera Gun, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

GEE Radio Frequency Unit Type 24

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Three, X005-2634

GEE was a radio navigation aid with few components, enabling it to be fitted easily to most aircraft requiring a navigator. It acquired a reputation of being simple to operate and gained the nickname ‘the goon box’ as anybody could use it.

GEE Radio Frequency Unit Type 24 | X005-2634, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

GEE Receiver Type R1355

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Three, 1993/0697/R

GEE was a radio navigation aid with few components, enabling it to be fitted easily to most aircraft requiring a navigator. It acquired a reputation of being simple to operate and gained the nickname ‘the goon box’ as anybody could use it.

GEE Receiver Type R1355, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

GEE Radio Frequency Unit Type 24

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X005-2646

GEE was a radio navigation aid with few components, enabling it to be fitted easily to most aircraft requiring a navigator. It acquired a reputation of being simple to operate and gained the nickname ‘the goon box’ as anybody could use it.

GEE Radio Frequency Unit Type 24 | X005-2646, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Fire damaged flying helmet wiring loom of Sergeant John Hannah, VC

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 82/U/789

This wiring loom shows signs of fire damage from the blaze which engulfed Handley Page Hampden P1355 after it was hit by anti-aircraft fire when bombing invasion barges in 1940.

John Hannah's fire damaged flying helmet wiring loom, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Magnetic mine being loaded into the bomb bay of a Handley Page Hampden Mk I

Photographs, P021820

Minelaying operations, typically referred to as Gardening sorties, represented a considerable part of the RAF's activities throughout the Second World War. The first RAF airborne minelaying operation was completed by a Handley Page Hampden.

Cylindrical mine, on wheeled trolley, being loaded into open bomb bay under an aircraft., Crown

Messerschmitt Me 262A-2a

Aircraft & Exhibits, MAR 1945-NOV 1945, Cosford, Hangar Three, 85/A/69

Me 262s were the first operational jet fighters to enter Luftwaffe service, in April 1944. This example was surrendered to the British in northern Germany at the very end of the war.

Starboard side view of Messerschmitt Me 262A-2a on a white background., (C) RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Victoria Cross Awarded to Squadron Leader Ian Willoughby Bazalgette, 1945

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 72/D/568

The Victoria Cross posthumously awarded to Squadron Leader Ian Willoughby Bazalgette for his courage and devotion to duty.

Reverse of Squadron Leader Ian Willoughby Bazalgette's Victoria Cross, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Pilot Officer Cyril Barton’s Service Dress Cap

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Three, 84/U/742

The Officer's, 1920 Pattern Service Dress Cap belonging to Pilot Officer Cyril Barton VC. The cap is signed on the inside by the crew members who survived the action for which Cyril was awarded his Victoria Cross.

Pilot Officer Cyril Barton’s Service Dress Cap | 84/U/742, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

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