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A Halifax four-engined bomber

Art

Maker: Unknown
This British war poster shows a photograph of a Handley Page Halifax Mark II being checked before take-off.
ARTV08521
A Handley Page Halifax B.III bomber of 462 Squadron RAAF taxiing at its base at Driffield. The ...

Photograph
A Handley Page Halifax B.III bomber of 462 Squadron RAAF taxiing at its base at Driffield. The aircraft, MZ296, was lost on 15 October 1944 while returning from a raid on Duisburg. Damaged by AA and l...
UK0963A
Air Crew Europe Star : Flight Sergeant J A Nicholson, 158 Squadron, RAF

Heraldry

Maker: Unknown
Air Crew Europe Star, impressed on reverse with recipient's name.
REL49820.002
Album relating to the service of Warrant Officer John Geoffrey Orr RAAF, No. 51 Squadron, RAF

Photograph
Photograph album documenting the service of 426755 Warrant Officer (WO) John Geoffrey (Geoff) Orr RAAF, (later AM), No. 51 Squadron, RAF. WO Orr served in Bomber Command after training in Australia, C...
AWM2018.874.2
Australia Service Medal : Flight Sergeant J A Nicholson, 158 Squadron, RAF

Heraldry

Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal, impressed around edge with recipient's details.
REL49820.005
BAY OF BISCAY, 1943-07-30. GERMAN SUBMARINE TAKING EVASIVE ACTION DURING AN ATTACK. THIS U-BOAT ...

Photograph
BAY OF BISCAY, 1943-07-30. GERMAN SUBMARINE TAKING EVASIVE ACTION DURING AN ATTACK. THIS U-BOAT IS ONE OF THREE ATTACKED BY SUNDERLAND "U" OF NO. 461 SQUADRON RAAF, HALIFAX "B" OF NO. 502 SQUADRON RAF...
AWM2019.98.2
British War Medal : Flight Sergeant J A Nicholson, 158 Squadron, RAF

Heraldry

Maker: Unknown
British War Medal, impressed around edge with recipient's details.
REL49820.004
Bullet riddled Halifax bomber turret door - Warrant Officer N F Williams, 35 Squadron RAF

Technology

Maker: Handley Page Ltd
Bullet riddled door from the rear turret of a Handley Page Halifax bomber which bombed Dusseldorf on the night of 11/12 June 1943.
RELAWM34748
Campbell, Ivan Harold (415506 Flying Officer, 462 Squadron, RAAF)

Manuscript

Maker: Batten, Antony Granville
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 415506 Flying Officer Ivan Harold Campbell, 462 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, 1999. Wallet 1 of 1 - Wallet consists of a typed manuscrip...
MSS2011
Cockram, John Crothers (Flying Officer, b.1924 - d.2017)

Private Record

Maker: Cockram, John Crothers
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 419379 Flying Officer John Crothers Cockram, 466 Squadron, 462 Squadron, and 96 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Canada, United Kingdom, and...
AWM2017.586.3
Colin James Challis, as a Flying Officer, interviewed by Laurence (Laurie) Field about his service in 460 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during the Second World War

Sound

Maker: Challis, Colin James Field, Laurence Melville (Laurie)
Colin James Challis, as a Flying Officer, interviewed by Laurence (Laurie) Field about his service in 460 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during the Second World War
S01616
Constable, Donald Frank (Flight Lieutenant, b.1919 - d.1944)

Private Record

Maker: Constable, Donald Frank Mace, H A Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 409383 Flight Lieutenant Donald Frank Constable, 78 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Australia and the United Kingdom, 1941-1956. Wallet 1 ...
PR04055
[Daylight raid by Halifax and Lancaster bombers on Cologne] (Ops 263)

Film

Maker: RAF Film Production Unit RAF Bomber Command
RAF Bomber Command operational film No 263 of daylight raid on Cologne (Köln). Identified unit is 346 Squadron (Free French) RAF operating Handley Page Halifax heavy bombers. Various shots of Halifax ...
F02600
Defence Medal : Flight Sergeant J A Nicholson, 158 Squadron, RAF

Heraldry

Maker: Unknown
Defence Medal, impressed around edge with recipient's name
REL49820.003
(4129230) Dixon, Francis William (Flight Lieutenant)

Sound

Maker: Dixon, Francis William
Francis William Dixon, Flight Lieutenant, Halifax Bomber pilot of 467 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), interviewed by Susan Green for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War...
S00507
Dorricott, Leonard 'Len' William (Sergeant, b.1923 - d.2014)

Private Record

Maker: Dorricott, Leonard 'Len' William
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 1230753 Sergeant Leonard 'Len' William Dorricott, RAF. The collection consists of an Observers and Air Gunners Flying Log Book detailing Dorricot...
AWM2016.417.1
Flight engineer in the cockpit of a Handley Page Halifax bomber

Art

Maker: Adams, Dennis
Part of the interior of a Handley Page Halifax bomber, showing seated flight engineer in flying dress. Study for 'Flight engineer in the cockpit of a Handley Page Halifax bomber (ART25689).
ART22982
Green, Alfred Henry (Warrant Officer, b.1923 - d.2003)

Private Record

Maker: Green, Alfred Henry
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 422500 Warrant Officer Alfred Henry Green DFC, No. 462 Squadron. The collection consists of one large leather-bound foolscap "minute book". The b...
AWM2017.699.1
Halifax the bomb Aimer

Art

Maker: Adams, Dennis
A bomb aimer in the nose of a Halifax bomber.
ART22961
Joseph B. Herman as a Flight Lieutenant pilot, 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), relates his experience of bailing out of his Halifax aircraft without a parachute during air operations over Germany in 1944.

Sound

Maker: Herman, Joseph Bernard Petersen, Jack
Recording of the audio of a story broadcast on the television current affairs program "Today Tonight". Narrated by Jack Petersen from the Queensland Air Museum and Aviation Historical Society of Austr...
S00113