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Recorded interview with Aircraftsman 1st Class Norman Hurst, 15 March 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4830

Norman Hurst completed national service with the RAF. He remembers being a clerk in the Transport Command Operations Room, training as a plotter at RAF Bawdsey and the Berlin Airlift.

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Recorded interview with Leading Aircraftsman John William Mitchell, 13 October 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6794/015

Recorded interview with John Mitchell, who completed RAF national service as an airframe rigger. He was posted to 216 Squadron at Fayid in Egypt, where he worked on Valetta aircraft.

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Aircraft recognition training - York

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC74/25/37

Aircraft recognition training film on the Avro York transport aircraft, using animated graphics to illustrate the aircraft’s various recognition features. Film shows Yorks in the air and on the ground.

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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Neil Gibson Harris, 4 April 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6797

Recorded interview with Neil Harris, who served as a navigator in Halifax aircraft during the Second World War and subsequently in Avro Lincolns before he retrained as a fighter controller.

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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Ivor Llewellyn Jules Robinson, 3 August 2006

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6758

Squadron Leader Ivor Robinson trained as an apprentice at Halton and served at sea in Royal Navy aircraft carriers. He later served in the Far East and with the V-force.

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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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