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VE Day Thank God.....And now mine’s a pint!!!

Archives, In Storage, X005-4895/001

Serving in the Royal Air Force as a pilot at the time, Flight Lieutenant Chance recorded his reaction to Victory in Europe in his flying logbook.

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Sunderland's duel with U-boat - Flying Officer A. Bishop DFC; RCAF

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1973

Recorded account by Flying Officer Bishop of his Sunderland’s attack on a U-Boat, during which the U-Boat was crippled and the Sunderland shot down.

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Recorded interview with Joyce Cesarani, 27 March 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6741

Recorded interview with Joyce Cesarani, who served as a Women’s Auxiliary Air Force driver and Educational and Vocational Training instructor at RAF Portreath during and after the Second World War.

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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

An Officer from British Columbia, Canada, 271: Cpl Johnny J. Maines by Edith Honor Earl, chalk on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00923

Edith Honor Earl made this portrait drawing for her exhibition 'Warriors of the Empire' with the Royal Empire Society, which opened in London’s Grosvenor House in December 1944. It is one of 22 portraits by her in the RAF Museum collection (besides others elsewhere) which celebrate the contributions of Service personnel from the British colonies and Commonwealth in the Second World War.

Bust length coloured chalk portrait of a Canadian Leading Aircraftsman, facing forward and right, wearing side cap. Small associative landscape drawing of British Columbia, Canada, in upper right corner., RAF Museum

118 Squadron Hunters at RAF Jever, November 1955

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-1742

Film in which Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft appear in the air and on the ground at RAF Jever. RAF personnel engage in various sports and Canadian Sabre aircraft also feature.

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Amateur footage of RAF and other aircraft at Goose Bay, Canada, 1964-1965 reel 3

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9939/003

Amateur film taken at Goose Bay in Canada shows Avro Vulcan bomber aircraft, a Bristol Britannia airliner and an S-58 helicopter, with various views of people and buildings in snow.

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