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RAF Sea Rescue Launch, 4th July 1943. Our Picture Shows
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RAF Sea Rescue Launch, 4th July 1943. Our Picture Shows
RAF Sea Rescue Launch, 4th July 1943.
Our Picture Shows, new RAF sea rescue launch, roaring along making nearly as much noise as a Spitfire, lashing the water into billowing clouds of spray, it races to pick up some airmen lost in a dinghy at sea, a staged rescue for benefit of camera.
The launch belongs to the Air Sea Rescue Service of the RAF Coastal Command.
The skipper is a flight lieutenant who was a city insurance broker before the war. The leading deck hand is 37 year old Bert. Tom, an L.A.C. whose home is in the Midlands, worked for a Birmingham glass manufacturer before the war. Kenneth of Leigh-on-Sea, the second coxswain was a traveller in silk stockings. In the engine room, working in the roar and heat of three Napier Lion engines are Frank, who used to make silk stockings in Leicester and Lofty, a steel constructional engineer. Sparks, who comes from Dagenham, Essex, used to work for a scrap metal merchant
L Bunting
Daily Mirror
Mirrorpix
England
WA*618912
Media ID 21400788
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