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Recorded interview with Sergeant Gerry Evans, 23 March 2023

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7377

Interview with Gerry Evans, who served as an airframe fitter working on Britannia and Hercules transport aircraft, Jaguar strike aircraft and Victor air-to-air refuelling aircraft in the UK and Germany.

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Recording of a speech made by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris at a Bomber Command reunion held in London, 13 May 1978

Film & Sound, X005-6731

Speech by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris to Bomber Command veterans, covering the bombing campaign and its significance in the outcome of the Second World War.

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Raid on Venice - Wing Commander Powell

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1992

Recording in which Wing Commander Powell describes a low-level night raid on Venice and Padua.

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Flying Officer Havelock - 4 December 1941

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1843

Recording in which Flying Officer Havelock, a Brazilian pilot serving in the RAF, gives an overview of his service career.

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Studies for 'Take Off': Cockpit Interior with Pilot and Co-Pilot (recto); Arm and Hand of Flight Engineer (verso) by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01182

Knight made these charcoal studies for her painting 'Take Off' (1943, Imperial War Museums), which represents a Stirling bomber crew preparing for flight. Based at RAF Mildenhall with No. 15 Squadron, Knight, who did not accompany the crew in flight, posed the men as if they were about to embark on a raid over Germany.

Studies for 'Take Off': Cockpit Interior with Pilot and Co-Pilot (recto); Arm and Hand of Flight Engineer (verso) by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal on paper, 1943. The recto side of the paper bears a loose preparatory study of Flight Sergeant Alexander Quadling who, in the oil painting, extends his hand to operate a switch on the flight engineer's panel., The artist's estate, Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

Study for 'Take Off': Stirling Bomber Cockpit by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal and watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01208

This detailed study represents the interior of a Stirling Bomber aircraft. It is one of many preparatory works, drawn on large sheets of paper, which Dame Laura Knight made for the painting ‘Take Off’ (1943, Imperial War Museums).

Study for 'Take Off': Stirling Bomber Cockpit by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal and watercolour on paper, 1943, The artist's estate and Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

Recordings relating to the 1944 Warsaw Rising and the restoration of Spitfire MA793

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/68

Three South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) recordings: on the Warsaw Rising; a talk on the Warsaw Rising given by a veteran; a report on the rebuilding of a Spitfire.

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Recording of an interview with Mr V E Williams, part two, 8 September 1978

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/49

Interview with Mr V E Williams, who served in armoured cars in Aden, Iraq, Palestine and the Western Desert in the 1930s and early 1940s.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant John Oliver Lancaster, 30 July 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6786

Recorded interview with John Oliver "Jo" Lancaster, who served as a pilot in Wellington and Lancaster aircraft and was the first to use a Martin-Baker ejection seat in an emergency.

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Augsburg Raid, April 17 1942 by Paul Nash, watercolour and gouache on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00985

Famed for his First World War works, in 1940 Nash was invited again to become an Official War Artist for the revived scheme chaired by Sir Kenneth Clark. When Clark’s War Artists’ Advisory Committee assigned him to the Air Ministry Nash made propagandist watercolours of RAF and Luftwaffe aircraft.

Augsburg Raid, April 17 1942.  Paul Nash.  Watercolour on paper, 1942, The artist's estate