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2000lb High Capacity Bomb Mk 2

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 65/O/1029

The 2,000lb blast bomb was the smallest of the High Capacity series.

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Pathfinder Force badge of Wing Commander Raymond Hilton

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1993/0281/U

Pathfinder crews identified and marked targets for the main bomber stream of aircraft. These crews underwent additional training and were expected to complete one Tour of 45 operations. A qualified Pathfinder was allowed to wear the coveted eagle badge over his left breast pocket.

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Window Bundle

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 78/R/301

Window consisted of strips of foil-backed paper dropped from an aircraft in bundles during a raid, and was designed to interfere with German radar.

Foil-backed paper bundled into a brown package, 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

Letter to Mrs Gladys Ellison from the War Office, 22 February 1945

Archives, London, Hangar Five, X002-5788/002/028

Gladys Ellison received this letter from the War Office's Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries, regarding her husband Harold’s grave.

Paper with typescript text and War Office emblem at the top, Crown

Commemorative scroll of Sgt Harold Ellison

Archives, London, Hangar Five, X002-5788/001/008

Memorial scrolls were issued to the families of British and Commonwealth military personnel killed on active service.

Typescript sheet with UK government coat of arms, Crown

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.

Typescript postcard with text entered, RAF Museum

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.

Typescript letter with crest embossed in top left corner, Crown

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

The Long March by Pamela Taylor, bronze and marble

Fine Art, London, Hangar Five, X003-2106

This memorial to commemorate the Long March was commissioned by the RAF Ex-Prisoners of War Association and unveiled in May 2003. Sculptor Pamela Taylor (1929-2014) based the figure of the airman on a wartime sketch by Ley Kenyon, artist and prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III who survived the march ('Marching Prisoners of War in Greatcoats', FA01916, RAF Museum collection).

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