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Recording of an interview with Wing Commander R D Pexton, 30 December 1977

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/32

Interview with Wing Commander R D Pexton who served as a pilot in the RAF before and during the Second World War, flying Spitfires, Gladiators, Hurricanes, Stirlings and Lancasters.

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Avro Lancaster B Mk III, DV267, close-up of aircrew about to climb on board, 1944

Photographs, In Storage, PC72/203/1

Warrant Officer John Laurens, DFM, Flight Sergeant Les Burton and Sergeants Chris Aitkin, Don Bolt, Ted Royston, Cassian Henry Waight, Davies and Kibble are pictured about to board.

Seven flying personnel facing camera, on ground, one turning to camera as he enters rear door of an Avro Lancaster, RAF Museum

Recording in which members of a Lancaster crew comment on a daylight raid, 14 August 1944

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/74

BBC despatch in which each member of a Lancaster crew comments briefly on a daylight raid from which they have just returned.

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A yank in the RCAF

Archives, In Storage, B2445

This is the memoir of American Major Hubert Knilans of No. 617 Squadron detailing his time in the RCAF. He flew in Operation Taxable, a deception operation leading up to D-Day.

A yank in the RCAF | B2445

Bomber Command operational film Nos. 110 and 111

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC96/108

Two films taken from aircraft of Bomber Command during Second World War bombing raids on Turin and Milan. Details on the personnel and aircraft concerned are given in title screens.

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