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Pilot Officer Briggs - Catalina pilot reporting on the sighting of the Bismarck

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6370

Recording in which Pilot Officer Briggs explains how he and the crew of his Catalina located the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic.

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Pilot Officers Milson & Careless - eleven and a half hours in a dinghy

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1896

Recording in which the pilot and rear gunner of a bomber describe a raid on Berlin and their subsequent ditching in the North Sea.

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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 Barry Weston, 5 February 2016

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3328

Recorded interview with Barry Weston, who served as a pilot in Hastings transport aircraft operating from the UK and Sunderland flying boats in the Far East, including Malaya and Korea.

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Recorded interview with Corporal Frank Frederick Few, 23 April 2016

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3336

Recorded interview with Fred Few, who served as an electrical technician with the RAF Airfield Construction Branch during the Second World War, serving in the UK, Faroe Islands and Iceland.

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Recording of a conversation with Squadron Leader J Miles, 1981

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/29

Recorded conversation with Squadron Leader J Miles - an RAF engineering officer - and several unidentified people at the RAF Museum Hendon.

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Recording of an interview with Wing Commander Charles Gardner, June 1980

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/16

Interview with Wing Commander Charles Gardner, who served in the Far East flying Catalinas with 240 Squadron. He describes operations against the Japanese fleet and attacks by Japanese aircraft.

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Recording of an interview with Captain R C S Reid, 3 July 1979

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/37

Interview by Squadron Leader Jackson Dymond and Ian Scott-Hill with Captain R C S Reid, who worked as a civilian airline pilot before, during and after the Second World War.

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Recording of an interview with Wilfred Russell, 25 May 1979

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/40

Interview with Wilfred Russell, who flew patrols over the Indian Ocean in Westland Wapitis during the Second World War. After returning to the UK he worked on German disarmament.

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Recording of an interview with Mr Markham, 9 April 1971

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/27

Interview with Mr Markham, who served as an engine fitter in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force, working with Felixstowe flying boats.

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