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Halifax Attack by Paul Nash, watercolour and chalk on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA02819

This is one of a number of watercolours Paul Nash produced when commissioned through the War Artists’ Advisory Committee as the Air Ministry’s Official War Artist from March to December 1940.

Halifax Attack by Paul Nash, watercolour and gouache on paper, Artist copyright expired / RAF Museum

Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Tony Smith, 6 October 2022

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7354

Interview with Tony Smith, who served as an RAF navigator in Canberra, Valiant and Victor bomber aircraft. He describes his experience of operating each aircraft type during the Cold War.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Arthur Spencer, 22 May 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7423

Arthur Spencer was a navigator in Lancaster bomber aircraft of 97 Squadron, including raids on Peenemünde and Berlin. In Dakota transport aircraft, he participated in the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949.

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Bomber Command operational films

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/153

Three films taken from RAF Lancaster bomber aircraft during daylight bombing raids on Flushing in the Netherlands, against the German battleship Tirpitz in Tromsø Fjord, Norway, and Düren in Germany.

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Collection of combat reports, 1939-1945

Archives, X008-5400

Combat reports were official documents detailing operational encounters with enemy aircraft, and a vital intelligence source. This extensive collection features over 16,000 original reports, organised by squadron. They cover actions by squadrons in Bomber, Fighter, and Transport Command, as well as Fleet Air Arm Squadrons, Merchant Ship Fighter Units and the Air Transport Auxiliary.

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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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Bomber evasion tactics, Spitfire versus Stirling

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/34

Film in which animated diagrams and film taken from the perspectives of a fighter pilot and bomber’s gunner show how a bomber aircraft can manoeuvre to avoid a fighter attack.

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What's the form?

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/4

Film in which the crash of an Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft is thought to have resulted from unauthorised low flying, until a more thorough examination of the evidence proves otherwise.

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Victoria Cross of Sergeant John Hannah

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 82/D/793

Sergeant John Hannah was just 18 years old when he was awarded the Victoria Cross for showing extraordinary courage and devotion to duty during a bombing operation in September 1940.

Reverse view of Victoria Cross of Sergeant John Hannah, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

RAF Eastcote Collection - Secretary of State's visit to RAF Wittering, 1964

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC98/253

Film in which Handley Page Victor and Avro Vulcan bomber aircraft and Blue Steel missiles are seen on the ground. Hugh Fraser, Secretary of State for Air, meets the aircrew.

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