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Bombing enemy convoy off Norway - Pilot Officer Leboulder and Flying Officer Passmore; interviewed by John Byrd

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1847

Pilot Officer Leboulder and Flying Officer Passmore describe an attack on a German convoy off the coast of Norway, during which their aeroplane was hit and damaged.

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Attack on enemy shipping - Sergeants Mosley and Garcia

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1846

Sergeants Mosley and Garcia, the pilot and gunner of a Hudson, describe a low-level attack on shipping off the coast of Norway, including aircraft damage and crew injuries.

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Flying Officer Cundy - Adventures of a Liberator

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1851

Flying Officer Cundy describes an 11 hour patrol in a Liberator, during which he engaged two Heinkel floatplanes and attacked a surface ship in company with a surfaced U-Boat.

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Flying Officer Coker - rescue from a Portuguese ship

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1855

Flying Officer Coker explains how he was forced to ditch his Hudson in the sea near a Portuguese merchant ship. The crew were then transferred to a Royal Navy destroyer.

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Flight Lieutenant Bulloch - Encounter between Liberator bomber, German submarines and three Condors

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1831

Recording in which the pilot of a Coastal Command Liberator describes engagements with Focke-Wulf Condors and a U-Boat during convoy escort duties over the Atlantic.

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Rescue by a Sunderland aircraft - Flight Lieutenant R.B. Burrage

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1832

Recording in which an Australian Sunderland pilot describes the rescue of a Whitley’s crew after ditching in the Atlantic.

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Pilot Officer E W Tate - bombing of an escort vessel by a Lockheed Hudson

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1829

Recording in which an RAF pilot tells the story of a Hudson’s attack on a small German warship.

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Walrus Amphibian Aircraft by Raymond McGrath, watercolour on canvas board

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1785

An amphibious biplane, the Walrus was used for RAF air-sea rescue missions to patrol British waters, the Mediterranean and the Bay of Bengal, to recover crew from downed aircraft.

Walrus amphibian aircraft. Raymond McGrath. Watercolour on paper., Crown copyright (expired) / RAF Museum

Handley Page Hastings T.5

Aircraft & Exhibits, MAR 1948-AUG 1977, Cosford, Hangar Four, 85/A/9

The Handley Page Hastings replaced the Avro York as the Royal Air Force’s standard long-range transport from 1948. Two squadrons of the new aircraft served alongside the Avro York throughout the Berlin Airlift, flying vital supplies into the city during the Soviet blockade.

Handley Page Hastings T.5 on display at Cosford, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan