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Observer Corps Lapel Badge

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 78/U/621

The Observer Corps, later Royal Observer Corps, was a civil defence organisation formed to detect, identify, track and report aircraft in the skies over the UK.

Round metal badge with an engraved scene of an observer searching the skies, encircled by a motto in a blue border, © RAF Museum

Prisoner-of-war postcard from Sergeant Leonard Clarke at Stalag IV B to his wife, 17 November 1944

Archives, London, Hangar Five, AC95/45/13/058

German prisoner-of-war postal service (Kriegsgefangenpost) postcard with German and British censorship stamps and text by Sergeant Clarke handwritten in pencil.

Typescript pro forma postcard with text entered in pencil, RAF Museum

No. 239 Squadron Scoreboard

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1944, London, Hangar Five, 83/C/1333

This panel records the aerial victories achieved by No. 239 (Bomber Support) Squadron’s Mosquitos.

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Female Flak-Helper’s Arm Badge

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1986/0591/U

By 1943 a lack of manpower led the Luftwaffe to turn to auxiliary forces for personnel to operate their flak and searchlight defences. These included female auxiliaries, schoolchildren aged 16 and Russian prisoners of war willing to help in exchange for better conditions.

Female Flak-Helper’s Arm Badge | 1986/0591/U, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Plotting Block, Friendly Forces

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1940, London, Hangar Five, X002-6607

Plotting blocks and counters were used in Operations Rooms in the Second World War and particularly in the Battle of Britain to track the movements of incoming formations of enemy aircraft.

Wooden block with white and blue counters on inset shelves, with pole extending vertically from top, surmounted by yellow plate with the numbers 253 in black text, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Handley Page Victor K.2, Cockpit Section

Aircraft & Exhibits, MAR 1963-DEC 1993, London, Hangar Five, 1996/0166/A

This aircraft was built as a bomber in 1960, but was modified for the reconnaissance role in 1965, before being converted into a tanker in 1978. In this new role, it took part in both the Falklands Conflict and the Gulf War before being retired in 1993.

Handley Page Victor K Mk2 cockpit section interior., (C) RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAF Museum/ Iain Duncan

'Figaro' Emblem of Ian Gleed

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1940, London, Hangar Five, 71/A/222

Flight Lieutenant Ian Gleed flew his Hurricane Mk I throughout the Battle of Britain. He had the wily cartoon cat Figaro, from the Disney film Pinocchio, swatting a swastika, painted on his cockpit door.

Parallelogram-shaped green panel with a hand-painted black and white cat standing on hind legs turned to face a swastika, © RAF Museum

Medal Bar of 9 Air Marshal Sir Harold ‘Micky’ Martin

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1989/0003/D

‘Micky’ Martin was a highly decorated Australian RAF pilot who flew in the Dams Raid of May 1943. He was renowned for his skill at low level flying and completed 83 operations for Bomber Command in aircraft including Hampdens, Manchesters, Lancasters and Mosquitos.

Nine medals including a white enamel cross (DSO) two silver crosses (DFC and AFC, three bronze stars, and three silver medals, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Medal Bar of Group Captain John Alexander Kent

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1988/0713/D

Group Captain ‘Johnny’ Kent was one of the most decorated Spitfire pilots of the Second World War. His tally was 12 enemy aircraft destroyed, three probable, two damaged and one destroyed on the ground.

Medal Bar of Group Captain John Alexander Kent, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Fishplate from Halifax III HX339

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1944, London, Hangar Five, 1998/0182/A

This fishplate (part of an aircraft's structure that holds two elements together) came from Halifax III HX339, and includes a 20mm round from a Messerschmitt Bf 109.

Fishplate from Halifax III HX339 | 1998/0182/A, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan