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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Bernard Alan Lacy, 6 April 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4834

Interview with Alan Lacy, who served as an RAF pilot in Sunderland flying boats during the Second World War. He describes attacks on German U-boats in the Bay of Biscay.

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Recording of an interview with William Patrick Elms, part two, 26 June 1974

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/12

Interview with William Elms, covering his interwar service in Malta, work for Imperial Airways and work as an instructor at Halton and Henlow.

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Short Sunderland MR.5 (ML824 50 S.9) of the French Navy and Hawker-Siddeley Shackleton MR.3 (201-P) of No. 201 Squadron in flight, 24 March 1961

Photographs, In Storage, P016592

Short Sunderland ML824 was flown from France to Pembroke Dock in 1961.

Short Sunderland MR.5 (ML824 50 S.9) of the French Navy and Hawker-Siddeley Shackleton MR.3 (201-P) of No. 201 Squadron in flight, 24 March 1961 | P016592, Crown Copyright, RAF Museum

Recording in which Mr J A Griffin reads out entries from the diary of 5 Squadron RCAF, 1972

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/64

A researcher, Mr J A Griffin, reads out entries from the diary of 5 Squadron RCAF, based at RCAF Dartmouth, Nova Scotia dating from January 1939 to October 1941.

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RAF Pageant, 1931

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/36/1

Various RAF aircraft are seen in the air and on the ground at the 1931 Royal Air Force Display at RAF Hendon. Demonstrations include parachuting, bombing, formation flypasts and aerobatics.

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Martin Mariner Mk. I (JX109), on beaching gear, October 1943

Photographs, In Storage, P005742

The Martin 162B Mariner GR.I was the RAF equivalent of the Martin PBM-3 Mariner used by the US Navy for maritime patrols and equipped with radar on top of the fuselage.

A large twin-engined flying boat on land, Please contact Museum Copyright Officer or Collection Curator before using this asset / Crown Copyright, RAF Museum

Short Sunderland Mk. V (VB887 4X-X) of 230 Squadron on Lake Havel during the Berlin Airlift, 1948

Photographs, In Storage, P021269

This photograph shows the first Sunderland flying boat to land on Lake Havel during the Berlin Airlift, the first major confrontation between the East and the West during the Cold War.

Black and white photograph of an RAF Sunderland flying boat on Lake Havel in West Berlin during the Berlin Airlift, RAF Museum / u00a9 RAF Museum

Short Sunderland MR.5 (NS-D) of 201 Squadron delivering supplies during the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949

Photographs, In Storage, P031129

The Berlin Airlift was the first major confrontation between the East and the West during the Cold War. It was known as Operation 'Plainfare' by the British and Operation 'Vittles' by the Americans.

A Sunderland flying boat on a lake in Berlin, © Crown

Sunderland Flying Boat in Hangar by John Nash, oil on canvas

Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1781

John Nash represented this Sunderland flying boat when he was commissioned through the War Artists' Advisory Committee to paint Admiralty subjects in the Second World War, as an Official War Artist.

Sunderland Flying Boat in Hangar by John Nash, oil on canvas, Crown copyright: expired / RAF Museum / RAF Museum

RAFM Sunderland 5 ML824 - move from Pembroke Dock to RAF Museum and subsequent re-assembly

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/409

Film in which a Sunderland flying boat is moved in sections by road across London to the RAF Museum at Hendon, and reassembled by RAF personnel of 71 Maintenance Unit.

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