Showing 1 to 10 of 125 search results for Badge of 307 Squadron
Caterpillar Club Badge of Sergeant Leonard Clarke
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1995/0819/U
The Caterpillar Club awards membership to people whose lives have been saved by baling out of a stricken aircraft using an Irvin parachute. Members are awarded a gold caterpillar pin badge (the caterpillar represents the silk thread from which parachutes were originally made).
Letter to Mrs Clarke from the Commanding Officer of No. 7 Squadron regarding the loss of Sergeant Leonard Clarke, 16 January 1944
Archives, London, Hangar Five, AC95/45/4
This letter was sent to Leonard Clarke’s wife by Group Captain Kenneth Rampling, the Commanding Officer of No. 7 Squadron. He was himself killed on operations a few weeks later, in March 1944.
Medal Bar of 6 of Squadron Leader Lawrence ('Benny') Seymour Goodman
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X008-7563
Benny Goodman was born in London and joined the RAF in 1939. He completed 30 operations with No. 617 Squadron including against the battleship Tirpitz. His medals are 1939-1945 Star with Bomber Command Clasp, Arctic Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Legion d'Honneur Order of the Chevalier.
Telegram reporting Sergeant Leonard William Clarke as missing, 15 January 1944
Archives, London, Hangar Five, AC95/45/3
This telegram was sent to Mrs Ivy Clarke on 15 January 1944, informing her that her husband Sergeant Leonard Clarke of No. 7 Squadron, was missing following air operations on the night of 14 January 1944.
Luftwaffe Anti-Aircraft War Badge
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 66/U/941
Originally devised as qualification badges for aircrew, the use of some trade badges became linked to combat experience. The Anti-Aircraft Badge was awarded according to a points system reflecting the types of engagements that individual had undertaken.
Medal Bar of Wing Commander Raymond Hilton
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1993/0280/D
‘Ray’ Hilton was the pilot of our Lancaster R5868 on the first of its 137 operations, to Wilhelmshaven on 8 July 1942. Hilton captained the aircraft on a further 17 operations.
German language prisoner record card for Sergeant Leonard Clarke
Archives, London, Hangar Five, AC95/45/8
This record card for Sergeant Leonard Clarke was raised at his POW camp, Stalag IVB. It shows that he arrived there on 28 January 1944.
Filter results by: Hide filters