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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant John Oliver Lancaster, 30 July 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6786

Recorded interview with John Oliver "Jo" Lancaster, who served as a pilot in Wellington and Lancaster aircraft and was the first to use a Martin-Baker ejection seat in an emergency.

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Night fighter pilot - Wing Commander Max Aitken

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1953

Recording in which Wing Commander Max Aitken comments on various aspects of night-fighter operations.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant John Holton, 5 November 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5624

Interview with John Holton, who served as an RAF navigator in Meteor night fighter aircraft, as an instructor on Brigand and Balliol aircraft and as an operations officer at Khormaksar.

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Photograph of De Havilland Mosquito NF.30 (MM813 FK-H) of 219 Squadron, Lubeck, about 1945

Photographs, In Storage, P019171

The RAF occupied the former Luftwaffe airfield at Lubeck at the end of the Second World War. It was used to concentrate captured German aircraft, both those already captured and those brought in after the German surrender.

Side view of Mosquito aircraft on a grass landing strip, Out of copyright

Sergeant Bell - Raid on Bremen

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6344

Recording in which Sergeant Bell, an air gunner, gives an account of a raid on Bremen, during which several night fighter attacks were driven off.

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Australian Night Fighter - Squadron Leader D.F.B. Sheen DFC

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6355

Recording in which Squadron Leader Sheen describes a night engagement in which he shot down a Junkers 88 and a daylight incident in which he was shot down by a Messerschmitt 109.

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Night flying - Squadron Leader Topham

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1983

Recording in which Squadron Leader Topham, a night fighter pilot, explains his golden rules and describes successful engagements with German bombers over the United Kingdom.

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Bombing Skoda works - Flying Officer Howgill

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1981

Recording in which Flying Officer Howgill describes a raid on a Skoda factory in Czechoslovakia.

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Squadron Leader Hoare - Havoc stalks the Hun

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1828

Recording in which Squadron Leader Hoare describes night fighter operations over German air bases.

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Flight to Genoa - Maj Mullock

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1956

The mid-upper gunner of a Lancaster gives his account of a raid on Genoa, describing the flight across France, an attack by a Junkers 88, crossing the Alps and the sight of Genoa burning.

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