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Bust-length portrait of Flying Officer Edgar John Wilcox, circa 1940

Archives, Circa 1940 {cg}, In Storage, X007-1390/008

Edgar Wilcox was born in 1917 and educated at Winton House School and Croydon High School. He joined the RAF in 1937 and after completing his flying training was posted No. 72 Squadron in July 1938.

Flg Off Wilcox wears service dress and wears pilot's wings above his left breast pocket., Flg Off Wilcox wears service dress and wears pilot's wings above his left breast pocket.

Letter to Flying Officer Edgar John Wilcox from his sister, 22 August 1940

Archives, 22 AUG 1940, In Storage, X007-1390/003/012

Letter written during the Battle of Britain to Flying Officer Edgar Wilcox, a fighter pilot on No. 72 Squadron, from his sister Jess.

Manuscript letter., Manuscript letter.

Royal Air Force Balloon Command, November 1938-June 1945

Archives, In Storage, B3054

Ring binder of typescript sheets, photographs and memoirs regarding the history and operations of Balloon Command during the Second World War complied by Flight Lieutenant William Forks.

Typescript sheets bound in blue A4 ring-binder., Typescript sheets bound in blue A4 ring-binder.

Diary of Pilot Officer John Derek Bisdee, 8 May 1940-24 December 1940

Archives, 08 MAY 1940-24 DEC 1940, In Storage, X008-7751/002

John Bisdee was a fighter pilot with No. 609 Squadron in 1940. His diary records his involvement in the air fighting over Dunkirk in May and June 1940 and later in the Battle of Britain.

Black notebook with manuscript entries.

Diary of Pilot Officer John Derek Bisdee, 3 October 1939-31 December 1939

Archives, 03 OCT 1939-31 DEC 1939, In Storage, X008-7751/001

John Bisdee joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve in 1937 and was called up in September 1939. The diary covers the period where Bisdee was undertaking flying training prior to be being posted to an operational fighter squadron

Exercise books with manuscript entries.

Greenham Common by Peter Kennard, photomontage: silver gelatin print with graphite and gouache on card

Fine Art, X008-9484

Artist and activist Peter Kennard made this photomontage in support of the CND movement protest against the use of RAF Greenham Common as a nuclear weapons base for the United States Air Force (between 1980-1991).

Greenham Common by Peter Kennard, photomontage - a photograph of signage to RAF Greenham Common mounted onto card and embellished with graphite to suggest a trail of metallic, radioactive dust. Upper and lower bands of black gouache paint frame the apocalypic image of the grounds, portending death and uncontrollable fallout., RAF Museum

Pilot's flying log book of Air Vice Marshal Henry Algernon Vickers Hogan, 1937-1943

Archives, In Storage, AC94/2/4

Henry Hogan was a member of the Long Range Development Units, that in December 1938 broke the world non-stop distance record by flying from Ismailia, Egypt to Darwin, Australia. The aircraft that Hogan was piloting did not make Darwin, it landed in West Timor being short of fuel.

Pilot's flying log book, Crown

Dafoe Digest June 1944

Library, In Storage, X008-9519

Magazine of No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery School , Royal Canadian Air Force, stationed at RCAF Dafoe, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Image pending

Ninety-Nine August 1945

Library, In Storage, X008-9520

No.99 Squadron magazine.

Image pending

Ninety-Nine September 1945

Library, In Storage, X008-9521

No. 99 Squadron magazine.

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