TY  - BOOK
AU  - Franks,Norman L.R.
TI  - The RAF Air/Sea Rescue Service in the Second World War: rare photographs from wartime archives 
T2  - Images of war
SN  - 9781473861305
AV  - D810.S45 G738 2016
U1  - 940.54/4941 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Barnsley, South Yorkshire
PB  - Pen & Sword Aviation, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Royal Air Force
KW  - Air/Sea Rescue Service
KW  - History
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Search and rescue operations
N2  - SECOND WORLD WAR. When the Second World War began in 1939 it was thought that it would be fought along the same lines as the First World War, with the Allied air forces operating from both Britain and France. With the fall of Britain's Northern European Allies in May 1940, all that changed. From then onwards, RAF aircraft operating over enemy and enemy-held territory necessitated flights across both the North Sea and the English Channel. This meant that aircrew in difficulties would be forced to come down in both of these bodies of water. Therefore it was essential that some form of rescue service be made available to fish these airman from the water. But there were no aircraft in existence at that time that were designed for such a task: initially all that could be done was to use land 'planes to help locate anyone in the water, drop a dinghy to them, and then guide a boat to their position
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