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Achtung, Achtung, welcome to We Have Ways of Make You Talk, I'm Imperial Museum Special Number Three.

Where we're discussing what to do here, I said we're going to squeeze the lemon really hard, there's loads of peps.

And we're here with James of course, who's mostly struck dumb by this object, he's just perusing it.

And we're joined again by John Delaney, who is head of Second World War and mid-20th century conflicts.

Absolutely correct.

1929 to 1949.

Okay, and we were earlier on when we were wondering around and we've looked at the V-weapons, we've looked at the Spitfire, we looked at Monticeumber.

I said what's your favourite piece in here?

And you've had a lifetime of working with these large objects.

26 years.

26 years, what's that?

Almost, yeah, yeah, I've been very old.

You'd be very old dog if you'd lived to 26 years.

This is your favourite object.

Tell us what it is, take us through it.

This is the no section of a Lancaster one that flew with 467 Squadron in the Second World War, codenamed Fred the Fox, well nicknamed Fred the Fox, because it was F in the sequence of letters for the Squadron, so it was F for Fox Drought.

Does that make it Australian or Canadian?

Very good.

It was a British Squadron that was primarily put together to train Australians up to form the core nucleus of the Royal Australian Air Force, the Bomber Force.

So five out of the seven crew for this aircraft, Australian, two British.

So the navigator, the pilot, it's easier to say which ones weren't British.

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