Showing 2311 to 2320 of 2411 search results

Lightning - Rocket launcher trials over range target

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/560

Film illustrating weapons trials involving an English Electric Lightning fighter aircraft. Rockets and bombs are tested against ground targets on a coastal range and an air-to-air missile against a drone.

Image pending

Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Ivor Llewellyn Jules Robinson, 3 August 2006

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6758

Squadron Leader Ivor Robinson trained as an apprentice at Halton and served at sea in Royal Navy aircraft carriers. He later served in the Far East and with the V-force.

Image pending

Whitley Bomber: Dawn Return by C.R.W. Nevinson, oil on canvas

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00779

Christopher Nevinson’s painting represents a Whitley bomber coming in to land, returning from a night raid over Germany during the Battle of Britain.

CRW Nevinson oil painting of Whitley bombers returning at dawn after a night raid, RAF Museum

It Happened to Us! by Carel Weight, oil on canvas

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00793

After writing to the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC) in December 1939, asking to become an Official War Artist, Carel Weight received a commission to represent ‘bombing in a suburban district with people still going about their daily affairs’.

Carel Weight painting of Wimbledon trolley bus pursued by a Luftwaffe fighter and bomber aircraft, The Estate of Carel Weight. All Rights Reserved 2020 / Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

Transcript of the diary of Leading Aircraftman John Spalding of 119, 102 & 117 Air Ministry Experimental Stations (AMES), 1944-1945

Archives, In Storage, X006-1396

14 page typescript memoir.

Transcript of the diary of Leading Aircraftman John Spalding of 119, 102 & 117 Air Ministry Experimental Stations (AMES), 1944-1945 | X006-1396

Collection of papers relating to the life and death in action of Flight Sergeant Charles William Greenaway

Archives, In Storage, X006-1367

Small collection of papers relating to the death of Flight Sergeant Charles William Greenaway on operations.

Collection of papers relating to the life and death in action of Flight Sergeant Charles William Greenaway | X006-1367

Target folder, operation number GN. 3813, Duisburg, 1942-1944

Archives, In Storage, AC84/1/2/44

Target information folder prepared by the Air Ministry Target Section giving details of the DEMAG A.G. works and surrounding industrial areas in Duisburg.

Target folder, operation number GN. 3813, Duisburg, 1942-1944 | AC84/1/2/44

Documents enclosed in pilot's flying log book of Sqdn Ldr Harold Arthur Cooper Bird-Wilson, 1938-circa 1990

Archives, In Storage, X003-7892/001/001/001

Among the miscellaneous papers enclosed in Squadron Leader Bird-Wilson's log book is a collection of letters and documents relating to his shooting down and baling out of his Hawker Hurricane during the Battle of Britain on 24 September 1940.

Documents enclosed in pilot's flying log book of Sqdn Ldr Harold Arthur Cooper Bird-Wilson, 1938-circa 1990 | X003-7892/001/001/001

Formal photograph of Flight Sergeant Stanley James Woodbridge GC

Photographs, In Storage, PC76/24/51

Flight Sergeant Stanley James Woodbridge was a wireless operator in the crew of a Liberator aircraft which crashed in the jungle in Burma whilst engaged in an operation against the Japanese on 31st January, 1945. Together with five other members of the crew he was captured by the Japanese.

A man in uniform

Pilot's flying log book of 2nd Lieutenant Sydney Frank Woods, 1917-1919

Archives, In Storage, B1989

Log books covers time that 2nd Lieutenant Woods served as a flying instructor in Egypt, 1918-1919.

Pilot's flying log book of 2nd Lieutenant Sydney Frank Woods, 1917-1919 | B1989, Crown