ROYAL AIR FORCE COASTAL COMMAND, 1939-1945. - The crew of a Lockheed Hudson Mark I, N7318, of No. 206 Squadron RAF which rescued the Commander in Chief of Free Polish Forces, General Władysław Sikorski and his staff from Bordeaux, France, in June 1940, gather by the door of their aircraft at Bircham Newton, Norfolk. They are (left to right): Leading Aircraftman Garrity (from USA), navigator; Flight-Lieutenant W Biddle, pilot; unknown; and Leading Aircraftman W D "Spike" Caulfield, wireless operator/air gunner, who holds a wicker carrier containing a homing pigeon Sikorski, Władysław, Royal Ai
ROYAL AIR FORCE COASTAL COMMAND, 1939-1945. - The crew of a Lockheed Hudson Mark I, N7318, of No. 206 Squadron RAF which rescued the Commander in Chief of Free Polish Forces, General Władysław Sikorski and his staff from Bordeaux, France, in June 1940, gather by the door of their aircraft at Bircham Newton, Norfolk. They are (left to right): Leading Aircraftman Garrity (from USA), navigator; Flight-Lieutenant W Biddle, pilot; unknown; and Leading Aircraftman W D "Spike" Caulfield, wireless operator/air gunner, who holds a wicker carrier containing a homing pigeon Sikorski, Władysław, Royal Air Force, 206 Squadron
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