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Fragment of RAF Typhoon MN920 relating to Warrant Officer Ronald Desmond 'Gilbo' Gilbert, 181 Squadron
Technology
Maker: Hawker Aircraft Limited
Crumpled section of Hawker Typhoon Mark 1B MN920 fuselage skin which crashed in woods near Guerquesalles, a small town in Normandy, France on 19 August 1944. The pilot was Warrant Officer Ronald Desmo...REL49902.001
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Section of 3 inch HAIS pipe-line used in Operation PLUTO : Lieutenant Lyle Clark Miller, RANVR, HMS Sancroft.
Technology
Section of Hartley, Anglo-Iranian, Siemens (HAIS), lead, 3 inch underwater fuel supply pipe-line made up from lead pipe wrapped with two layers of paper tape, one of cotton, four layers of steel tape ...REL25150
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Tip of Spitfire propeller blade: Normandy, June 1944, 453 Squadron RAAF
Technology
Maker: Rotol Airscrews
Laminated timber fragment, roughly 200 mm long x 100 mm in chord, from the tip of a crashed Spitfire Mark IXb propellor blade. The leading edge of the blade is protected by a thin strip of brass shee...RELAWM34633