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Flying Officer Wooldridge - raid on Rostock

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1870

Recording in which a pilot, Flying Officer Wooldridge, describes his first operation in an Avro Lancaster.

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Raid on Emden - 31/1/42

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1860

Recording in which the rear gunner of a Handley Page Hampden describes a raid on Emden and the low temperatures experienced during night bombing operations.

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Flying Officer Havelock - 4 December 1941

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1843

Recording in which Flying Officer Havelock, a Brazilian pilot serving in the RAF, gives an overview of his service career.

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Sergeant More - Attack on Manheim

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1845

Recording in which Sergeant More, a bomb-aimer, describes an attack on Manheim, during which the bomber’s port engine was hit by flak and caught fire.

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Recording of an interview with Group Captain Theodore Studd, 9 February 1981

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/46

Interview with Group Captain Theodore Quintus Studd, who flew F.E.2b and Handley Page O/400 aircraft in the Royal Flying Corps and RAF. He served in the RAF until 1945.

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Flight Lieutenant MacNaughton - Ruhr attack

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1869

Recording in which Flight Lieutenant MacNaughton describes an attack on a target in the Ruhr Valley and comments on the importance of strategic bombing within the context of Allied strategy.

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Recording made during a visit by 463 and 467 Squadron Associations to the RAF Museum Hendon, 5 May 1975

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/51

Recording in which members of the 463 and 467 Squadron Associations make speeches and presentations to veterans. The significance of the RAF Museum’s Avro Lancaster, R5868 ‘S-Sugar’ is also mentioned.

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Recorded message made by Tom Barrette for Jack Bruce, 17 December 1982

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/59

Recording by Tom Barrette, curator at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson Arizona, for John ‘Jack’ McIntosh Bruce, keeper of aircraft and research studies at the RAF Museum.

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Flight Lieutenant Ercoland DSO - rescue of a Wellington crew

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1857

Flight Lieutenant Ercoland, a Wellington pilot, gives his account of a raid on Berlin, and his subsequent ditching in the English Channel.

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Fighter Affiliation: Halifax and Hurricane by Walter Thomas Monnington, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1755

This painting represents a Fighter Affiliation exercise in which the crew of a Halifax bomber were trained to out-manoeuvre a naturally faster and more agile Hurricane fighter. The exercise was designed to emulate the real-life situations faced by bomber crew pursued by enemy fighters.

Fighter affiliation: Halifax and Hurricane. Walter T. Monnington. Oil on canvas, © RAF Museum