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My name is Norman Eastmead, I’m ex RAF, and I served on the Air-sea rescue side of the Royal Air Force. At the outbreak of the war, I had just left the naval training school, which I had joined ...
The former RAF air/sea rescue craft is being restored to its original condition at Felixstowe Ferry – and now looks just as it did when in service during the early 1940s.
But with a top speed of 300 mph, the Defiant did make a serviceable first-generation night fighter during the Blitz, and it went on to be a useful target tug and Air-Sea Rescue machine.
Once part of the RAF’s Air Sea Rescue service, the 63-foot “whaleback” rescue boat, believed to be the last of its kind, was discovered half-sunk in the Norfolk Broads. Named for their appearance, ...
Irish Cost Guard rescue helicopter patrolling the sea off Dalkey Island, during Covid-19 level 5 lockdown. Photograph: PhoArtur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Eleanor Hooker ...
Memories of D-Day in RAF Air-Sea rescue. Norman Eastmead. Edited transcript of a video interview . D Day, I was based mostly on the South Coast of England, various places, depending where the ...
Once part of the RAF’s Air Sea Rescue service, the 63-foot “whaleback” rescue boat, believed to be the last of its kind, was discovered half-sunk in the Norfolk Broads.
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