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Stirling loses its turret - Flight Sergeant Whitney

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1889

Recording in which a Stirling pilot tells how he was attacked by a night fighter, ditched in the English Channel and was subsequently picked up by an air-sea rescue launch.

Image pending

Ammunition system in Boulton Paul, Type E, Handley Page Halifax tail turret

Library, In Storage, X001-4531

This Air Diagram demonstrates the location, feeding and ducting of the ammunition system for a Boulton Paul, Type E, turret in a Handley Page Halifax tail fuselage.

Diagram showing the tail turret and tail section of a Halifax. The ammunution system is shown with the feeds given in blue, red, yellow and green, Royal Air Force Museum / RAF Museum

Bristol gun turrets

Library, In Storage, 013063

Bristol Gun Turrets. Air Publication 1659B, Volume 1. Issued May 1940 by the Air Ministry. Includes general and technical information about Bristol turrets fitted to Bristol Blenheim and Bristol Beaufort aircraft.

Technical manual, Royal Air Force Museum

Boulton-Paul type F gun turret

Library, In Storage, 003205

1949 edition of Air Ministry Pamphlet 308 ‘Boulton-Paul type “F” gun turret (Weapons notes for flying personnel G8)’. Issued by the Air Ministry June 1949

Cream coloured page with black text in different fonts. With brown border on three sides, Royal Air Force Museum

Bristol Type 17 Gun Turret

Library, In Storage, 003191

2nd edition of Air Ministry Pamphlet 286 ‘Bristol Type 17 gun turret (Weapons notes G7)’. Issued by the Air Ministry (D.T.F.) March 1954

Tan coloured page with black text and Air Ministry Archives Museum stamp. With brown border visible on three sides of page, Royal Air Force Museum

Boulton Paul Type D Gun Turret

Library, In Storage, 003176

Revised edition of Air Ministry Pamphlet 278 ‘Boulton Paul Type D gun turret (Weapons notes)’. Issued by the Air Ministry February 1948. Formerly issued as ‘Weapons notes G6’

Cream page with black text and photograph of aircraft’s gun turret’s guns pointing upwards. With brown border on three sides, Royal Air Force Museum

Bristol Type 17 Gun Turret

Library, In Storage, 003190

Unknown edition of Air Ministry Pamphlet 286 ‘Bristol Type 17 gun turret (Weapons notes)’. Issued by the Air Ministry June 1949. Formerly issued as ‘Weapons notes G7’

Cream page with black text and photograph of airman manning guns in aircraft’s gun turret. With brown border on three sides, Royal Air Force Museum

Frazer-Nash turrets

Library, In Storage, 003201

Unknown edition of Air Ministry Pamphlet 304 ‘Frazer-Nash turrets: Notes for students (Armament notes for aircrews G15P)’. Issued by the Department of the Air Member for Training, Air Ministry July 1951 (Reprint)

Cream page with black text. With brown border on three sides, Royal Air Force Museum

Halifax Turret - Study: Fighter Affiliation by Walter Thomas Monnington, graphite on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA02300

This diagrammatic drawing, labelling the features of a Halifax bomber aircraft, such as a gun turret, was made in preparation for a finished painting in the Imperial War Museums collection (LD 3769). Monnington made two paintings on the theme of Fighter Affiliation - the other in the care of the RAF Museum (L001-1755; LD 3770) - which depict the Halifax from different viewpoints while undergoing training manoeuvres.

Graphite on paper drawing depicting mid-upper Halifax bomber turret from the astro dome. With notes by artist., The artist's estate