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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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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