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Full Dress Helmet of an Officer
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 71/U/1185
Worn on ceremonial occasions, the Full Dress helmet was expensive, uncomfortable to wear and likened by some to a baboon's bottom. The end of its use, in 1939, was welcomed by many officers.
Wand of an Aircraft Marshal
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 82/I/329
Ensuring the safe movement of aircraft, a marshal uses a series of hand signals to guide crews in restricted areas. In poor light conditions, illuminated batons are used.
Letter Head Printing Die
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 74/T/1275
For many people today, work is centred around a constant avalanche of emails. In the past, communication took the form of letters and memos.
Nylon Halex toothbrush
Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1942, London, Hangar One, 72/S/1426
This may look like a normal toothbrush but a magnetised compass swinger is concealed within the handle.
Playing Cards with Concealed Map
Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1942, London, Hangar One, 72/S/1438
Packs of playing cards concealing escape maps were smuggled into prison camps in Germany inside Red Cross parcels to help British and American prisoners of war to plan their escapes.
Dining Spoon
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 71/Z/259
On joining the RAF you would be issued with a number of essential items. This would have included set of eating irons consisting of a knife, fork and spoon.
Beer Mat from RAF Gan
Aircraft & Exhibits, 1975-1976, London, Hangar One, X002-3492
One of the remotest of these was RAF Gan, an airfield clinging to an atoll of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.
Sand from Stalag Luft III Parade Ground, The Great Escape
Aircraft & Exhibits, MAY 2007, London, Hangar One, X004-1399
On the night of 24 March 1944, 76 Allied prisoners, the majority of them RAF aircrew, escaped from the German prisoner of war camp, Stalag Luft III.
Scourge from Belsen Concentration Camp
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 81/C/169
On 15 August 1945, Allied troops liberated the Concentration Camp at Bergen-Belsen in Northern Germany. The liberators were confronted with the horrific sight of around 13,000 unburied bodies and 60,000 starving and diseased inmates.
Service Dress Cap of a Field Officer
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 75/U/734
The first blue RAF uniforms were supposedly made from fabric which was ordered by the Imperial Russian government but never delivered due to the revolution of 1917.
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