MERCHANT NAVY AND RAF CHANGE PLACES. SKIPPERS FLY WHILE AIRMEN SAIL. 10, 12 AND 13 JUNE 1943, STATION FORD AND THE CHANNEL. A NEW SCHEME OF LIAISON BETWEEN OFFICERS OF THE RAF AND THE MERCHANT NAVY IS HELPING THE WORK OF CHANNEL CONVOYS AND THEIR PROTECTION. THE SKIPPERS GO FOR FLIGHTS, AND IN TURN THE RAF OFFICERS TAKE TRIPS IN THE CARGO SHIPS THEY PROTECT. IN THIS WAY EACH GETS A REALISTIC IDEA OF THE OTHERS WORK AND CO-OPERATION IS FACILITATED. - Airmen aboard. Studying the charts in the Skipper's cabin are: (left to right) William Ronald, aged 38, of Middlesborough, Navigating Officer Laur
MERCHANT NAVY AND RAF CHANGE PLACES. SKIPPERS FLY WHILE AIRMEN SAIL. 10, 12 AND 13 JUNE 1943, STATION FORD AND THE CHANNEL. A NEW SCHEME OF LIAISON BETWEEN OFFICERS OF THE RAF AND THE MERCHANT NAVY IS HELPING THE WORK OF CHANNEL CONVOYS AND THEIR PROTECTION. THE SKIPPERS GO FOR FLIGHTS, AND IN TURN THE RAF OFFICERS TAKE TRIPS IN THE CARGO SHIPS THEY PROTECT. IN THIS WAY EACH GETS A REALISTIC IDEA OF THE OTHERS WORK AND CO-OPERATION IS FACILITATED. - Airmen aboard. Studying the charts in the Skipper's cabin are: (left to right) William Ronald, aged 38, of Middlesborough, Navigating Officer Laurie Lowther, aged 29, of North Allerton, Flying Officer Sidney Francis Layton, aged 32, of Bexley, Kent, a Coastal Command Navigator, and Flying Officer Jerrold A Campbell, RCAF, aged 22 of Scotland, Ontario, a Coastal Command Pilot. These two Flying Officers sailed with the convoy on this ship
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