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Flying Officer Coker - rescue from a Portuguese ship

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1855

Flying Officer Coker explains how he was forced to ditch his Hudson in the sea near a Portuguese merchant ship. The crew were then transferred to a Royal Navy destroyer.

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Coastal Command - Attack on submarine (Squadron Leader Thompson)

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6399

Recording in which Squadron Leader Thompson gives an account of an attack on a U-boat on the surface.

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Interviews with crew of Sunderland

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6444

Recording in which the Australian crew of a Short Sunderland give an account of an engagement with a Focke-Wulf 200.

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Squadron Leader Campbell - Coastal Command

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6338

Recording in which Squadron Leader Campbell gives an overview of the range of tasks undertaken by Coastal Command, emphasising the highly skilled nature of Coastal Command crews.

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McTaggart's tale - Sergeant Bungey

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6440

Recording telling the story of problems caused by a gremlin onboard a Coastal Command aircraft.

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Flight Lieutenant Bulloch - Encounter between Liberator bomber, German submarines and three Condors

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1831

Recording in which the pilot of a Coastal Command Liberator describes engagements with Focke-Wulf Condors and a U-Boat during convoy escort duties over the Atlantic.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Bernard Alan Lacy, 6 April 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4834

Interview with Alan Lacy, who served as an RAF pilot in Sunderland flying boats during the Second World War. He describes attacks on German U-boats in the Bay of Biscay.

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Squadron Leader Bulloch - Liberator attacks U-Boats

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1940

Squadron Leader Bulloch describes a 17-hour Atlantic convoy escort patrol in a Liberator, during which he and his crew sighted eight U-boats, attacked seven and confirmed one to be sunk.

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Flying Officer Cundy - Adventures of a Liberator

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1851

Flying Officer Cundy describes an 11 hour patrol in a Liberator, during which he engaged two Heinkel floatplanes and attacked a surface ship in company with a surfaced U-Boat.

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Bombing of a U-Boat by the Captain of a Coastal Command aircraft (Squadron Leader Gibson)

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-1791

Squadron Leader Gibson describes the sinking of a U-Boat and a 17 year old girl gives an account of one of the first air raids on the United Kingdom.

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