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Dover air battle - Robin Duff

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6447

Robin Duff describes the scene as Messerschmitt 109s attack barrage balloons around Dover. Messerschmitts are engaged by anti-aircraft guns and fighters, several crash and sound effects are heard.

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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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First of the few - Supermarine Swift

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3310/002

Film in which de Havilland Vampire and Supermarine Attacker fighter aircraft appear on the ground, snow is cleared from a runway and Supermarine Swift aircraft pass overhead, land and park.

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A story of fighter development

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3214

Film on the development of fighter aircraft by the Vickers-Supermarine company. Aircraft seen include Supermarine racing seaplanes, Spitfire fighter aircraft during Second World War combat operations and Attacker jet aircraft.

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Sergeant Kingaby - four Messerschmitts in a day

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6428

Account by Donald Kingaby of the events of 15 November 1940. On this day, while serving with 92 Squadron, Kingaby was credited with the destruction of four Messerschmitt 109s.

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Spitfire - RAF Coltishall

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC90/55

Film in which Hurricane and Spitfire fighter aircraft are seen over RAF Coltishall. A Spitfire is then seen on the ground and the pilot, Jeffrey Quill, talks to RAF officers.

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First of the few - Supermarine Swift

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3310/001

Supermarine Swift fighter aircraft are seen in the air and on the ground. A number of RAF personnel and civilians greet each other next to a line of parked Swifts.

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Operations Room sequence

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3375

Film showing a post-war reconstruction of a Battle of Britain fighter operations room, in which plotters and controllers follow the events of 15 September 1940. Archive footage illustrates aerial combat.

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Royal Air Force Display, Hendon, 13 July 1929

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3276

Footage of the 1929 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes aerobatics, formation flying, ‘crazy flying’, parachuting, mock aerial combat, attacks on ground targets and the destruction of a balloon.

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Compilation of Second World War German aircraft footage, 1930s-1940s, reel 1

Film & Sound, In Storage, X002-8110/001

Film consisting of several short clips showing a number of Second World War German fighter, bomber and transport aircraft, flying boats and gliders in the air and on the ground.

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