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6 unusual facts about Imperial War Museum


20th Fighter Wing

On 19 October 1993, aircraft 68–120 went to the Imperial War Museum at RAF Duxford where it is now on display alongside Happy Jack's Go Buggy, a 79th Fighter Squadron P-38 (68–120 is painted as The Chief – it was the wing's alternate flagship).

Bernard Matthew Cassidy

His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London.

Edward Felix Baxter

His Victoria Cross is displayed in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery in the Imperial War Museum in London.

Fred Potts

His grave is at Reading Crematorium, whilst his medals are held by the Imperial War Museum.

Mistel

A Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (Werk Nr. 733682), preserved in the Imperial War Museum in London, was the fighter part of a Mistel system that was captured by British forces in 1945.

Nöel Mason-MacFarlane

Mason-Macfarlane's papers and correspondence are archived in the Imperial War Museum's Department of Documents.


Alan Powers

He has curated several popular exhibitions, including Modern Britain 1929-39 Design Museum, 1999, Serge Chermayeff (Kettle's Yard), 2001, Eric Ravilious (Imperial War Museum), 2003 and Mind into Matter (De La Warr Pavilion), 2009.

Ben Macintyre

In 2008 MacIntyre wrote an informative illustrated account of Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional spy James Bond, to accompany the For Your Eyes Only exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum, which was part of the Fleming Centenary celebrations.

Benjamin Clemens

His sculpture 'The St John's Ambulance Bearers' is used on the album cover of The Jam's 1979 album Setting Sons, and is held in the Imperial War Museum permanent collection in London.

Frederick Stocken

He conducted the work at the opening of the Permanent Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum with the strings of the Royal Academy of Music, and also in Sarajevo with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra.

HM Coastal Motor Boat 4

After the action the boat was returned to the United Kingdom where it was on display first at the Imperial War Museum in London and then at the Vosper works on Platt’s Eyot (island) on the River Thames near Kingston for many years with a Victoria Cross painted on the side until the Vosper works there closed.

Laura Rossi

Her credits include scores for films such as Paul Andrew Williams' London to Brighton and The Cottage, as well as being commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to write an orchestral score for the 1916 film The Battle of the Somme.

M11 motorway

In June 2002, a brake failure on an Aero L-39 Albatross landing at the Imperial War Museum's Duxford Aerodrome caused the plane to run off the end of the runway and down the embankment on to the motorway.

Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr

The anti-tank rifle can be found in several museums: Patton Museum, Fort Knox, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, The Imperial War Museum, King's Own Royal Border Regiment and 22nd Cheshire Regiment museums in the United Kingdom, the Army museum at the Invalides, Paris, the Army Museum Bandiana in the City of Wodonga, Australia, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia.

Priestnall School

They are all named after Manchester landmarks – the Bridgewater Hall, the Imperial War Museum, Urbis, the John Rylands Library, and Victoria Baths.

Project Vitello

Project Vitello was a military operation that transferred the 9.2-inch Mark X breech-loading gun at Spur Battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.

Spur Battery

In 1981 the 9.2-inch gun at Spur Battery was dismantled and transferred to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, England, for preservation.


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Fred Potts

In 2009, as the result of the production of a BBC radio documentary on Potts, a reunion occurred between the relatives of the two soldiers at the Imperial War Museum.