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Recorded interview with Aircraftsman 1st Class Ronald James Drake, 10 November 2016

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3347

Recorded interview with Ronald Drake, who served in the RAF as a clerk in the UK and with a squadron in the Middle East immediately after the Second World War.

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Aircraft Crash Axe

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, 78/T/346

Multi-crew and multi-engine aircraft were equipped with an axe to assist the crew in escaping from it in a crash. These sturdy steel axes had insulated rubber handles designed to allow the axe to be used to cut through live electrical cables.

Chrome-headed axe with black rubber handle, © RAF Museum

Recording of an interview with Mr V E Williams, part two, 8 September 1978

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/49

Interview with Mr V E Williams, who served in armoured cars in Aden, Iraq, Palestine and the Western Desert in the 1930s and early 1940s.

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Recorded interview with Kenyon Thomas, 12 December 2012

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6736

Recorded interview with Ken Thomas, who served as an aircraft fitter on various aircraft in the United Kingdom, the Middle East, North Africa and Italy during the Second World War.

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Recording of an interview with Squadron Leader Allen, circa 1965

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/1

Hubert Allen flew at Hendon before the First World War. During the war he served in the Royal Naval Air Service, and in the RAF during the Second World War.

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Aircraft Recognition Chart: Wellington III (2-Hercules)

Library, X004-7602

Ministry of Aircraft Production aircraft recognition chart of a Vickers Wellington Mark III. Issue 2, December 1942.

Recognition chart showing images from different perspectives of a Vickers Wellington Mark III, Crown ©

Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Thomas Llewellyn Jones, 1 June 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6749

Recorded interview with Thomas Jones, who flew as bomb-aimer in Lancasters of 90 Squadron at RAF Tuddenham towards the end of the Second World War. He then served in India.

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