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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Kevin Bazeley, 6 September 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9909

Kevin Bazeley served as a navigator in VC10 transport aircraft and in Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, before being discharged from the RAF when his superiors discovered that he was gay.

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Nimrod reminiscence session, 9 May 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7422

Peter Crispin, Chris Hooper, John Platt, Hector Hillman and Michael Day discuss their experience of Shackleton and Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, onboard Nimrod XV249 at the RAF Museum’s Midlands site.

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Recorded interview with Leading Aircraftsman John William Mitchell, 13 October 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6794/015

Recorded interview with John Mitchell, who completed RAF national service as an airframe rigger. He was posted to 216 Squadron at Fayid in Egypt, where he worked on Valetta aircraft.

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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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Bombing of a U-Boat by the Captain of a Coastal Command aircraft (Squadron Leader Gibson)

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-1791

Squadron Leader Gibson describes the sinking of a U-Boat and a 17 year old girl gives an account of one of the first air raids on the United Kingdom.

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RAF Coastal Command attack beached destroyer - Kent Stevenson interviewing Wing Commander K. Gatwood; Flying Officer P. Dwornik and Wing Commander D. Lumsden

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1951

Recording in which Beaufighter crewmen describe an attack on a beached destroyer and a Lancaster pilot describes a forced landing on an advanced airfield in France.

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War commentary - Group Captain Pearce extract

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1948

Group Captain Pearce gives an overview of the constantly changing tactical situation in the North Atlantic, as aircraft of Coastal Command attempt to locate and destroy German U-Boats.

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Squadron Leader J.J. Thompson - Capture of a U-Boat

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6397

Recording in which Squadron Leader Thompson of 269 Squadron explains how he and his Hudson crew captured a German U-Boat (U-570) in the Atlantic on 27 August 1941.

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Flying Officer Petri - The Flying Dutchman

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1877

A Dutch navigator serving in the RAF describes an attack on a convoy of German merchant ships, during which his Hudson was hit and his wireless operator was injured.

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Attack on shipping off French coast - Flight Lieutenant Cawthorn

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1887

Flight Lieutenant Cawthorn gives an account of a Beaufort patrol off the Cotentin Peninsula, during which a ship was sighted and attacked with bombs.

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