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Air Crew Europe Star: Flying Officer Frederick Micheal Spafford, RAAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Air Crew Europe Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details.AWM2019.835.1.4
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Air Crew Europe Star with France & Germany clasp: Squadron Leader D J Shannon, 617 Squadron RAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Air Crew Europe Star with France & Germany clasp. Engraved on reverse with recipient's details.OL00572.004
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Attack on Tirpitz (Ops 228)
Film
Maker: RAF Bomber Command
Lancaster Squadrons Nos 9 RAF and 617 RAF of No. 5 Group Bomber Command attacked the German battleship Tirpitz in Kaa Fiord Norway from the Russian base Yagonik near Archangel. Accompanying the bomber...F02559
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Australians who took part in the great raid on the Moehne, Eder and Sorpe dams on the night of ...
Photograph
Australians who took part in the great raid on the Moehne, Eder and Sorpe dams on the night of May 16/17 1943. Pictured L-R: Flight Lieutenant (FLTLT) R C Hay DFC; Pilot Officer (PO) C L Howard; FLTLT...042269
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Australia Service Medal: Squadron Leader D J Shannon, 617 Squadron RAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.OL00572.008
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British War Medal 1939-45: Flying Officer Frederick Michael Spafford, RAAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around the edge with recipient's details.AWM2019.835.1.6
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Squadron Leader D J Shannon, 617 Squadron RAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.OL00572.007
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Defence Medal: Flying Officer Frederick Michael Spafford, RAAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Defence Medal. Impressed around the edge with recipient's details.AWM2019.835.1.5
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Defence Medal: Squadron Leader D J Shannon, 617 Squadron RAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Defence Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.OL00572.006
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Distinguished Flying Cross and bar: Squadron Leader D J Shannon, 617 Squadron RAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Distinguished Flying Cross and bar (Geo VI). Engraved on reverse with year of issue.OL00572.002
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Distinguished Flying Cross: Pilot Officer Frederick Michael Spafford, 617 Squadron, RAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Distinguished Flying Cross (Geo VI). Engraved reverse with year of issue.AWM2019.835.1.1
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Distinguished Service Order and bar: Squadron Leader D J Shannon, 617 Squadron RAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Distinguished Service Order and bar (Geo VI). Unnamed as issued.OL00572.001
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Flight Lieutenant Bruce Buckham DSO DFC, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), interviewed by Ken Llewelyn
Sound
Maker: Buckham, Bruce Alexander Llewelyn, Kenneth
420437 Flight Lieutenant Bruce Buckham DSO DFC, RAAF interviewed by Ken Llewellyn about his service as a Stirling and Lancaster pilot with Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command during the Second World ...S01670
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Italy Star: Squadron Leader D J Shannon, 617 Squadron RAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Italy Star. Engraved on reverse with recipient's details.OL00572.005
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King George and Queen Elizabeth visit 617 Sqn RAF
Film
Coverage of King George and Queen Elizabeth visit to 617 (The Dambusters) Squadron RAF, Scampton Lincolnshire. Using the Barnes Wallis "bouncing bomb" eighteen Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron attack...F02547
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Korbecke, Germany. 1943-05-16. Water pouring from the breach in the wall of the Mohne dam. ...
Photograph
Korbecke, Germany. 1943-05-16. Water pouring from the breach in the wall of the Mohne dam. Thirteen Australian airmen took part in the attack on the Mohne and Eder dams in the Ruhr. No. 617 Squadron R...073356
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Morgan, Trevor Colin Charles (Warrant Officer, b.1921 - d.2000)
Private Record
Maker: Morgan, Trevor Colin Charles
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 428746 Warrant Officer Trevor Colin Charles Morgan, 467 Squadron and 463 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Australia , Canada and United King...AWM2019.867.2
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[Railway viaduct at Bielefeld] (Ops 268)
Film
Maker: RAF Film Production Unit RAF Bomber Command
RAF Bomber Command Operational Film No 268 of raid by Lancaster bombers on the railway viaduct at Bielefeld, Germany (possibly the strike by 617 Squadron RAF on 22 February 1945). Opening scene of an ...F02582
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Sinking of the 'Tirpitz'
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
From her completion in 1941, the 40,600-tonne German battleship 'Tirpitz' became a threat to the safety of British and Allied convoys and naval ships alike. Not only was her warlike potential much to ...ART25686
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Spafford, Frederick Michael (Pilot Officer, b.1918 - d. 1943)
Private Record
Maker: Spafford, Frederick Michael
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 407380 Pilot Officer Frederick Michael Spafford DFC, DFM. Spafford, an air bomber with No. 617 "Dambuster" Squadron, was killed when his aircraft...AWM2019.835.5
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Squadron Leader David Shannon
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of Squadron Leader David Shannon, DSO, DFC and Bar. As Flight Lieutenant David Shannon pilot No 617 Squadron RAF participated in the Dambusters Raid on Mohne Dam, Germany, on night of 16-17 M...ART27555
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Squadron Leader Tony Burcher (Rtd) interviewed by Ken Llewelyn about his service in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
Sound
Maker: Burcher, Anthony Fisher Llewelyn, Kenneth
O21979 (403182) Burcher, Anthony Fisher (Squadron Leader) served as rear gunner with 617 Squadron RAF (Dam Busters)S01656
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1939-45 Star: Squadron Leader D J Shannon, 617 Squadron RAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939-45 Star with Bomber Command clasp. Engraved on reverse with recipient's details.OL00572.003
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The Gen [RAF news magazine] No. 2
Film
RAF news magazine No. 2 covers; bombing and capture of Pantelleria; a wager between General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery on the speed of which Montgomery would capture Sfax in Tunisia. Mont...F02178
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Tirpitz sunk, RAF destroys pride of Nazi navy
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
Fox Movietone newsreel on the sinking of the Tirpitz. On 12 November 1944 Lancaster aircraft of 9 and 617 Squadron RAF, with Bomber Command, some with Australian crews, succeeded in sinking the German...F07306
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10 ton bomb: RAF Bomber Command attack [Bielefeld] viaduct with 22,000lb bomb
Film
Maker: RAF Film Production Unit
On Tuesday March 15th Bomber Command sprung its newest suprise on Germany, the 22,000 lb bomb. This bomb is carried in Lancasters specially modified for the purpose and it was these aircraft of 617 Sq...F02567