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Recorded interview with Sergeant Peter Michael Kirkpatrick, 9 May 2017

Film & Sound, X008-3361

Peter Kirkpatrick trained as an apprentice at Halton and served as an airframes and engines maintainer on Canberra, Puma and Chinook aircraft before leaving the RAF to work with satellites.

Image pending

Group photograph of 603 Squadron posing with a Bristol Beaufighter, April 1944

Photographs, In Storage, P020406

No. 603 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, a reserve component of the RAF comprised of civilians designed to reinforce the RAF. They were one of 20 squadrons incorporated into the RAF at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

Formal squadron portrait with personnel posing on an aircraft, Please contact Museum Copyright Officer or Collection Curator before using this asset

Bristol Beaufighters of 252 Squadron flying over Athens during the Victory in Europe flypast, 1945

Photographs, In Storage, P023333

While news of the German surrender and Victory in Europe on 8 May 1945 was greeted with joy by the Allies, for many countries it did not mark the end of the fighting or the suffering.

Aircraft fly over the Parthenon in Athens as part of the VE Day celebrations, Please contact Museum Copyright Officer or Collection Curator before using this asset

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

Recorded interview with Reverend (Squadron Leader) Peter Lee, 28 September 2017

Film & Sound, X008-3394

Recorded interview with Peter Lee, who was an RAF chaplain in the UK and Cyprus before becoming an academic specialising in the ethics of war and the use of drones.

Image pending

A Republic P-47 Thunderbolt being worked on by engineers at the Thunderbolt Maintenance Depot, Normandy, 26 August 1944

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6020/7

During the battle for Normandy that followed the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, the Allies relied on air power to help support their advance.

General view of striped down Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and spare parts amongst trees, with ground crews, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

Recorded interview with Group Captain William Pixton, 23 January 2018

Film & Sound, X008-4762

William Pixton served as a Jaguar pilot during the Cold War and 1991 Gulf War. He also completed an exchange tour, flying A-10 aircraft with the United States Air Force.

Image pending

View of main entrance to RAF Seletar, Singapore, 1939

Photographs, In Storage, P024667

RAF Seletar in Singapore opened in 1928. The motto of the station was, 'We Watch All Around.'

Black and white photograph of front gate of RAF Seletar, 1939, Out of copyright

Aerial view of RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, April 1960

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6827/1

RAF Akrotiri became a functional operation airfield in July 1955.

Aerial view of RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus., Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Alice McDermott, 5 February 2018

Film & Sound, X008-4768

Alice McDermott served as an RAF pilot in Tornado and Hercules aircraft, including Iraq and Afghanistan, before becoming a reservist chaplain. She describes her work relating to religion and welfare.

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