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Flight Lieutenant Learoyd VC

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6309

Flight Lieutenant Roderick Learoyd describes a low-level night bombing raid on an aqueduct carrying the Dortmund-Ems Canal on 12 August 1940. For this action Learoyd was awarded the Victoria Cross.

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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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Medal bar of Squadron Leader Arthur Scarf, VC

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X008-8790

As a pilot in 1941, Squadron Leader Scarf was the only member of the RAF to be awarded the Victoria Cross for service in East Asia during the Second World War.

Group of five medals mounted on ribbons., (C) RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAF Museum

Sergeant Pilot Ward VC

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6385

Recording in which Sergeant James Ward of 75 Squadron, second pilot in a Wellington bomber, describes his actions of 7 July 1941, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

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Squadron Leader Widdowson talking on the gallantry that won Sergeant Ward the VC

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6389

Squadron Leader Widdowson, pilot of a 75 Squadron Wellington, explains how his second pilot, Sergeant James Ward on 7 July 1941 came to be awarded the Victoria Cross.

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20 Squadron RFC Christmas card sent by Sgt Thomas Mottershead VC to his son, 1916

Archives, In Storage, X001-3557

Sgt Thomas Mottershead sent this his card to his son in Christmas 1916, and was killed a few weeks later.

Greetings card, folded with RAF wings on front cover, signed by Sgt Mottershead, Crown