ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: COASTAL COMMAND - An airwoman chalks up details of Coastal Command's last patrol on the operations board at Castle Archdale. Sunderland V 'Z-Zebra' was sent out into the Atlantic to rendezvous with convoy HX358 some 500 miles southwest of Ireland, making contact at on 3 June. Just after midnight on 4 June her wireless operator received the signal to return to base. Interesting details are revealed in this shot, including the 'High Tea' reference in the top-left corner of the board, used to identify aircraft fitted with sonobuoy equipment. The war may have be
ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: COASTAL COMMAND - An airwoman chalks up details of Coastal Command's last patrol on the operations board at Castle Archdale. Sunderland V 'Z-Zebra' was sent out into the Atlantic to rendezvous with convoy HX358 some 500 miles southwest of Ireland, making contact at on 3 June. Just after midnight on 4 June her wireless operator received the signal to return to base. Interesting details are revealed in this shot, including the 'High Tea' reference in the top-left corner of the board, used to identify aircraft fitted with sonobuoy equipment. The war may have been over, but this photograph was considered too sensitive by Air Ministry censors and was duly stopped
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