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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Steve Carr, 20 January 2022

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5692

Steve Carr served as an RAF pilot in Wessex and Chinook helicopters from 1985 to 2004. During the 2003 Iraq War he landed Royal Marines on the Al Faw peninsula.

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Medal Bar of Pilot Officer Robert Alan Marshall

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1997/0384/D

Robert Alan Marshall trained in Canada as a navigator. Marshall joined the RAF as a Sergeant, before being promoted to Pilot Officer, and served with Nos. 12 and 619 Squadrons. Marshall was later seconded to BOAC.

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Recorded interview with Wing Commander Matt Roberts, 4 August 2021

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5675/010

Interview with Matt Roberts, who served as a Chinook pilot and commanded 18 Squadron. He describes his experience of operations in Afghanistan and in support of French forces in Mali.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Colin Bell, 7 December 2020

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5660

Dave Waring was an RAF pilot in Whirlwind and Puma helicopters, serving in various locations. During the 1991 Gulf War he was an air liaison officer with the British Army.

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Framed case of medals awarded to Wing Commander Kenneth John Lawson

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1992/0423/D

Wing Commander Kenneth John Lawson had participated in over 100 operational sorties before his Avro Lancaster was destroyed during an operation to attack Nuremberg on 3 January 1945.

Seven medals in a frame with a silver plaque giving presentation details. The medals include a DSO (bar) and DFC, RAF Museum

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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Medal Bar of Flight Lieutenant Frederick William Arthur Hendry

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, X008-8787

The DFC was awarded to Hendry on completion of a tour of operations and following his navigating a severely disabled aircraft back to the UK after severe icing resulted in the loss of engines and height over enemy territory.

Medal bar comprising: DFC, 1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star (France-Germany clasp), Defence Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, RAF Museum

Medal Bar of Air Marshal Sir Ralph Squire Sorley

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, X005-4201

The medals of Air Marshal Sir Ralph Sorley, comprising gallantry awards and campaign medals.

Medal Bar of Air Marshal Sir Ralph Squire Sorley | X005-4201

Medal Bar of 6, Squadron Leader Walter Henry Park

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 79/D/2131

Walter Henry Park joined the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, earning the Military Cross in 1917. His Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded for operations in North Russia in 1919 and the Bar for operations in Kurdistan in 1922.

6 metal medals suspended on a bar by coloured silk ribbons, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAFM/Iain Duncan

Medal Bar of Air Marshal Sir Leonard Horatio Slatter, DSC, DFC

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, X007-3906

Medal Bar of Air Marshal Sir Leonard Horatio Slatter. He was awarded the DSC and bar for nine combat victories and for his bombing attacks on Zeebrugge Mole His DFC was a 1919 New Year's Honour and therefore without citation.

Medal bar of 12 medals, RAF Museum