July's Navigator Highlights
01 July 2010
This month Navigator, the Museum's online collection, offers you two major new highlights 'The Battle of Britain' and ' Charles Brown Photographs 1929 - 1940'.
The Battle of Britain:
The Battle of Britain was a pivotal moment in the history of the world. The Luftwaffe's failure to destroy RAF Fighter Command between July and October 1940 proved to be a major turning point in the Second World War.
The RAF Museum holds some of the most important objects relating to the Battle of Britain, including the medal groups of Fighter Command's only Battle of Britain VC, Flt Lt Eric James Brindley Nicolson, and ACM Hugh Dowding, commander of Fighter Command. Here you will find a small range of objects, some of which can now be seen in the Battle of Britain upper gallery at RAF Museum London.
Charles Brown Photography:
Charles Edward Brown (1896-1982) was an active aviation photographer from the 1920's to the 1960's. His collection of aviation photographs is one of the largest compiled by a single photographer and he is reknowned as one of the finest air-to-air photographers.
So far the Museum has catalogued over 16,000 Charles Brown photographs, mainly 4x5in glass plate negatives, from the collection and all these records and images can now be found on Navigator. Here can be found a sample from the period 1929 - 1940.
