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Personal diary of Second Lieutenant William Montague Butler, 1918

Archives, In Storage, X001-2393

Butler joined No. 8 Squadron from England in February 1918 and flew in operations covering the March retreat following the German Offensive.

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Bomber evasion tactics, Spitfire versus Stirling

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/34

Film in which animated diagrams and film taken from the perspectives of a fighter pilot and bomber’s gunner show how a bomber aircraft can manoeuvre to avoid a fighter attack.

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What's the form?

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/4

Film in which the crash of an Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft is thought to have resulted from unauthorised low flying, until a more thorough examination of the evidence proves otherwise.

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Flight Sergeant Middleton VC - Pilot Officer Skinner

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1941

Pilot Officer Skinner, a Stirling wireless operator, recalls the raid on Turin on the night of 28-29 November 1942, during which his pilot, Rawdon Hume Middleton, won the Victoria Cross.

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Wing Commander C.M. Wight-Boycott, DSO

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6435

Wing Commander Wight-Boycott's account includes details of how he intercepted and shot down three Dorniers and a Junkers 88 in one night in the area of London.

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Recorded interview with Flying Officer Joseph Sudell, 30 January 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4822

Joseph Sudell served as a navigator in Lancaster bomber aircraft at the end of the Second World War. He participated in air attacks on Dresden and Operations Manna and Exodus.

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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

Recording of an interview with Wing Commander R D Pexton, 30 December 1977

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/32

Interview with Wing Commander R D Pexton who served as a pilot in the RAF before and during the Second World War, flying Spitfires, Gladiators, Hurricanes, Stirlings and Lancasters.

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Recording of interviews with Wing Commander Patrick and Flight Lieutenant Greening, circa 1970

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/17

Recordings of two interviews, the first with Wing Commander Patrick, who flew as a Pathfinder with Bomber Command, the other with Flight Lieutenant Greening who also served with the Pathfinders.

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Recording in which Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie describes a bombing raid, circa 1970

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/70

Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie, a veteran of Bomber Command, describes the sequence of events that took place before, during and after an RAF bombing raid during the Second World War.

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