Royal Air Force Coastal Command: A short history of the maritime air force which protected the United Kingdom’s shipping during WW I and WW IIRoyal Air Force Coastal Command was the organisation charged with keeping the sea lanes clear around the coasts of Britain for the best part of half a century, from immediately after the First World War until the 1960s. In the decades after the Second World War, John Campbell served as a Coastal Command navigator and crew captain on Shackleton aircraft in the Maritime Patrol role. Having studied in great detail the history and development of Coastal Command, he has researched and written this thorough account of its activities throughout its years of operation. |
Contents
Chapter Two The submarine and the aeroplane P | 15 |
Chapter Three Early days P | 22 |
Chapter Four First World War P | 34 |
Chapter Five Reorganisation P | 51 |
Chapter Six Maritime aircraft P | 67 |
Chapter Seven Navigation of coastal aircraft P | 97 |
Chapter Eight Coastal Command weapons P | 110 |
Chapter Nine Torpedoes P | 121 |
Chapter Seventeen World War Two 1939 P | 168 |
Chapter Eighteen 1940 P | 177 |
Chapter Nineteen 1941 P | 188 |
Chapter Twenty 1942 P | 210 |
Chapter Twenty One 1943 P | 256 |
Chapter Twenty Two 1944 P | 372 |
Chapter Twenty Three 1945 P | 464 |
Chapter Twenty Four 1946 P | 492 |
Chapter Eleven Maritime Patrol operating areas P | 130 |
Chapter Thirteen Coastal notes P | 140 |
Chapter Fourteen Radar and detection aids P | 148 |
Chapter Fifteen Coastal Signals Organisation P | 159 |
Chapter Twenty Six The Operational Training Units P | 515 |
Chapter Thirty Coastal Cold War P | 537 |
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