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Flying Officer Wooldridge - raid on Rostock

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1870

Recording in which a pilot, Flying Officer Wooldridge, describes his first operation in an Avro Lancaster.

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Raid on Emden - 31/1/42

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1860

Recording in which the rear gunner of a Handley Page Hampden describes a raid on Emden and the low temperatures experienced during night bombing operations.

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Recording of an interview with Group Captain Theodore Studd, 9 February 1981

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/46

Interview with Group Captain Theodore Quintus Studd, who flew F.E.2b and Handley Page O/400 aircraft in the Royal Flying Corps and RAF. He served in the RAF until 1945.

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Flight Lieutenant MacNaughton - Ruhr attack

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1869

Recording in which Flight Lieutenant MacNaughton describes an attack on a target in the Ruhr Valley and comments on the importance of strategic bombing within the context of Allied strategy.

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Recorded message made by Tom Barrette for Jack Bruce, 17 December 1982

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/59

Recording by Tom Barrette, curator at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson Arizona, for John ‘Jack’ McIntosh Bruce, keeper of aircraft and research studies at the RAF Museum.

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Flight Lieutenant Ercoland DSO - rescue of a Wellington crew

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1857

Flight Lieutenant Ercoland, a Wellington pilot, gives his account of a raid on Berlin, and his subsequent ditching in the English Channel.

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Wellington Bomber Drawn on the Day Hitler Invaded Belgium by Paul Nash, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1761

This watercolour is part of ‘Aerial Creatures’, the second exhibited series of work by Paul Nash on Air Ministry subjects commissioned through the War Artists’ Advisory Committee. The composition is based upon Nash's photograph of a partially covered Wellington bomber which he took when visiting an airfield (Tate Collection).

Wellington Bomber Drawn on the Day Hitler Invaded Belgium by Paul Nash, watercolour on paper, Crown copyright: expired / RAF Museum / RAF Museum

The Battle of Britain by Paul Nash, lithograph

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01314

This print published by the National Gallery was lithographically produced at the Curwen Press after Paul Nash's major oil painting, 'The Battle of Britain' (1941, Imperial War Museums). This was one of four ambitious, large-scale war pictures Nash painted for the Ministry of Information (MOI) as an Official War Artist.

The Battle of Britain by Paul Nash, lithograph, 1941, published by the National Gallery, Crown copyright: expired.

Halifax Attack by Paul Nash, watercolour and chalk on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA02819

This is one of a number of watercolours Paul Nash produced when commissioned through the War Artists’ Advisory Committee as the Air Ministry’s Official War Artist from March to December 1940.

Halifax Attack by Paul Nash, watercolour and gouache on paper, Artist copyright expired / RAF Museum

Recorded interview with Sergeant Frederick Victor Bashford, 21 February 2018

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4772

Vic Bashford served as an RAF electrician during the Second World War, including participation in the Battle of France, Battle of Britain and 151 Wing’s deployment to Russia in 1941.

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