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Aircraft Model (Trench Art)

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 1994/0361/C

Miniature model biplane made from "8x51mm Lebel Mle 1886D" cartridge and strips of light alloy, engraved wings, propeller, and wheels. FRANCE 1916 BALKANS 1918 across tailplane.

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Luftwaffe officer and family, circa 1942

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-2234

Amateur film in which a Luftwaffe officer is seen on a street, walking in a park and sitting around a table with a number of other people, apparently his family.

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The Jacques Charles and Robert brothers hydrogen balloon at Gonesse, 27 August 1783

Photographs, In Storage, PC73/37/1

Jacques Alexandre César Charles, Anne-Jean Robert and Nicolas-Louis Robert built the first hydrogen-filled balloon and flew it from the Champ de Mars, Paris, on 27 August 1783.

Villagers attacking a balloon, RAF Museum

Pilot's flying log book of Captain Richard Stanley Davies RFC/RAF, 1916-1918

Archives, In Storage, X001-2352/001

the log book covers Davies' flying training in the UK, his brief service with No.1 Squadron from June to July 1917, where he is injured on 17 July 1917 and returns to the UK to recover from his wounds.

Small note book with manuscript entries, Crown

RAF gun-camera films - attacks on enemy shipping and ground targets, July 1942

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/325

Gun camera footage taken from Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft during engagements with German aircraft and attacks on ground targets in Europe and ships in the English Channel and North Sea.

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Distinguished Flying Medal of Sergeant George Hawkins

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, X008-9582

Hawkins won his DFM as a Leading Aircraftman whilst serving as the air gunner on a Bristol Blenheim. The Blenheim undertook a highly successful reconnaissance over north-west Germany on 31 October 1939. The DFM was awarded on 8 March 1940 by which time Hawkins had been promoted to Sergeant.

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RAF flight engineer's flying log book of Sergeant Albert John Rogers, 22 November 1943-26 March 1944

Archives, 22 NOV 1943-26 MAR 1944, In Storage, X006-1372

Aircrew flying log book of Sergeant Albert Rogers.

RAF flight engineer's flying log book of Sergeant Albert John Rogers, 22 November 1943-26 March 1944 | X006-1372

Plan of Operation BIGOT, June 1944

Archives, In Storage, B3837

This document was created during the preparations for Operation Overlord.

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Squadron Leader Pugh DFC

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1858

Squadron Leader Pugh, a Whirlwind pilot, describes the flight to France, escorted by Spitfires, and his attack on a German airfield, where he destroyed several Junkers 88s.

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Squadron Leader J.G. Carver

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1866

Recording in which Squadron Leader Carver describes various aspects of low level ground attack sorties flown in Spitfires against factories in France.

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