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Raid on Danzig - Flight Sergeant Williams

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1884

Recording in which Flight Sergeant Williams describes a low-level raid by Avro Lancasters on a U-Boat factory in Danzig.

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Flight Lieutenant Kark - operational notes

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1871

Recorded account in which Flight Lieutenant Kark, a non-air crewman, gives an account of a raid on Cherbourg docks, during which he was a passenger in a Douglas Boston.

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Stirling versus three enemy fighters - Flight Sergeant Waddicar

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1892

Flight Sergeant Waddicar, a gunner in a Short Stirling, describes his return from a raid on Bremen, with the aeroplane damaged, the wireless operator injured and the rear gunner killed.

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Sergeant Murray - Experiences of a tail gunner

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6369

Recording in which Sergeant Murray gives a brief account of his career as a tail gunner in bombers during the early part of the Second World War.

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Australian Night Fighter - Squadron Leader D.F.B. Sheen DFC

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6355

Recording in which Squadron Leader Sheen describes a night engagement in which he shot down a Junkers 88 and a daylight incident in which he was shot down by a Messerschmitt 109.

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Squadron Leader Pitt

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6346

Recording in which Squadron Leader Pitt, an RAF intelligence officer, gives a brief overview of his work.

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Flight Lieutenant Campbell - Fighter pilot saved by a rubber dinghy

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6381

Flight Lieutenant Campbell explains how he baled out over the English Channel and spent some time in his dinghy before being picked up by an RAF air sea rescue launch.

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Fighter Pilot

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6335

Recording in which an RAF fighter pilot describes several engagements between his squadron and formations of German aircraft over southern England during a single day.

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Fighter Pilots - Operations over Northern France

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3400

Recording in which several Spitfire pilots make brief comments on a bomber escort sortie to Bethune, during which several Messerschmitt 109s were destroyed in exchange for no British casualties.

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The first one thousand - A radio impression of the raid on Cologne, May 30-31, 1942

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1878

Incomplete dramatised account of the first thousand bomber raid, on Cologne in May 1942. The recording covers planning at Bomber Command headquarters, preparations on one station and the raid itself.

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