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	RAF Coastal Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coastal Command was an organization within the Royal Air Force tasked with protecting the United Kingdom from naval threats.
		Continued wrangling with Bomber Command meant it was into 1942 before even a few dozen VLRs were released, and much later still before a lonely squadron was posted to Shorts Gander, Newfoundland, covering the crucial Atlantic chokepoint and ultimately allowing Coastal Command to cover the whole North Atlantic.
		Apart from a brief period under the operational command of Allied Forces Headquarters during Operation Torch and its aftermath, RAF units in Gibraltar remained under Coastal Command control for the rest of the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coastal_Command (1269 words)

	Command (military formation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In a military context, a command is a collection of units or a group of personnel under the control of a single officer.
		A command is usually a high-level formation which is responsible to government or the one of the senior officers in charge of a nation's military.
		Although the concept of a command dates back to the foundation of the Royal Air Force, the term command (as the name of a formation) was first used in purely RAF-context in 1936 when Bomber Command, Fighter Command, Coastal Command and Training Command were formed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Command_(military_formation) (242 words)

	A Forgotten Offensive: Royal Air Force Coastal Command’s Anti-Shipping Campaign, 1940–1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An air blockade had never been considered during the interwar years, and thus Coastal Command was not able to carry out the necessary operations at the outbreak of the war.
		Coastal Command also had devoted a large amount of the war to fighting off amalgamation with either the Royal Navy or Royal Air Force.
		Coastal Command crews suffered appalling losses (up to 20 percent losses on single sorties), leading to calls for flak-suppression fighters to operate with torpedo bomber squad-rons during attack runs.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/bookrev/goulter.html (761 words)

	Project Constant Endeavour :: Coastal Command during WWII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Command’s main and abiding task throughout the war was to protect the nation's sea-lanes; its equipment was in part inadequate and had to juggle demands from around the world meeting Britain’s Empire and global commitments.
		Thus far, Coastal Command's responsibilities an achievements over Europe and home waters have been described, with only scant mention of operations over the vast expanse of ocean that separate Britain from the Commonwealth and from her vita sources of supply of oil, food, military equipment and munitions.
		Moreover, the aircraft and weapons at Coastal Command's disposal were, as already explained unable to combat enemy submarines; such successes as were achieved were the result of enemy boats being surprised on the surface.
	www.projectconstantendeavour.com /index.php?id=143 (5450 words)

	No. 683 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		683 Squadron RAF was a squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
		69 Squadron, at Luqa in Malta in February 1943, as part of RAF Coastal Command.
		Initially equipped with Spitfire fighters, the squadron re-equipped with Mosquito VI fighter-bombers in May, and deployed to El Aouina in Tunisia in November, then to Severo (in Italy?) in December.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/No._683_Squadron_RAF (153 words)

	Eden Camp Hut 9
		R.A.F. Spitfires or Hurricanes fought continuously against Luftwaffe Me 109s, leaving vapour trails thousands of feet up in the skies, a sign to onlookers that the battle was continuing.
		The main duty of Coastal Command was reconnaissance over the North Sea, a task which had begun on 24th August 1939.
		The RAF Ground Crew during the war was made up of experts in a wide variety of subjects.
	www.edencamp.co.uk /hut9 (637 words)

	Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For aircraft serving in RAF Coastal Command, standard machine-guns of 12.7 mm (0.50 in) calibre were used where possible.
		RAF Coastal Command eqipped nine squadrons with the Halifax for anti-submarine, meteorological and anti-shipping patrols.
		The Halifax was also operated by nine squadrons of the RAF's Coastal Command for anti-submarine, meteorological and shipping patrols, the aircraft being converted from standard bombers and specially equipped, taking the designations Halifax GR.Mk II, GR.Mk V or GR.Mk VI according to the bomber version from which they were derived.
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/halifax.htm (3255 words)

	First Things Must Come First - The Churchill Centre
		Although Coastal Command would do better in the first half of 1942, and very much better in the last half of the year, these results were either not yet verified or still lay in the future at midyear.
		Coastal Command would have to divert aircraft to it, and perhaps to subsequent raids.
		Churchill, no mean rhetorician himself, was riot so much convinced by Harris's denunciations of Coastal Command as he was moved to direct the air chief marshal's powers of expression into constructive formulations which would advance their common aim of building up the bombing offensive.
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=571 (5275 words)

	Project Constant Endeavour :: Facts and Figures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Coastal Command aircraft sank 189 U-boats and a further 24 were sunk in joint operations with surface forces.
		A number of U-boats in excess of 100 were damaged by Coastal Comand aircraft to the extent of having to break off their operations.
		Coastal command aircraft laid more that 1,100 mines in enemy waters.
	www.projectconstantendeavour.com /index.php?id=19 (224 words)

	The Royal Air Force operations in support of D-day
		To this end, anti-shipping and anti-U-boat attacks are made by RAF Coastal Command, which operates more aircraft than ever before in these roles.
		Air Marshal Harris’s assertions that Bomber Command would be incapable of executing precision attacks demanded by the Transportation Plan were invalidated when RAF strategic bombers successfully attacked Trappes in one of a series of experimental raids ordered by Air Chief Marshal Portal (the Chief of Air Staff).
		RAF Bomber Command commenced a series of attacks on French rail centres (in particular the repair shops), in preparation for the invasion, with a raid by 261 Handley Page Halifaxes and 6 de Havilland Mosquitoes (using the 4000lb 'Cookie' bomb for the first time) on the marshalling yard at Trappes.
	www.raf.mod.uk /dday/timeline_mar.html (526 words)

	Defeat
		German forces would be in effective command of the whole Atlantic seaboard, and within their control two of the largest naval fleets in the world, with incalculable consequences for Russia and the United States.
		RAF Coastal Command flew offensive patrols by bomb carrying Hudsons and Ansons, attacking the German front lines, and keeping a watch for any attempt by the Kriegsmarine to interfere.
		It was unfortunate for myth and legend that most of the RAF operations were not visible to the men on the beaches, and their officers, who subject to bombing and strafing complained most vociferously about the "failure of the RAF to protect them".
	mogggy.org /dunkirk/background/background.htm (3394 words)

	British Military Aviation in 1945 - Part 2
		RAF Bomber Command commence mass food drops to the Dutch civilian population in areas still occupied by the German armed forces (Operation Manna).
		Wing Commander J.B. Nicolson VC is killed when the No.355 Squadron Consolidated Liberator in which he was flying as an observer crashes into the sea following an engine fire 130 miles south of Calcutta.
		The last U-boat to be sunk by an aircraft under RAF Coastal Command control, the Type VIIC submarine U-320, is attacked by a Consolidated Catalina of No.210 Squadron flown by Flight Lieutenant K.M. Murray.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /milestones-of-flight/british_military/1945_2.html (605 words)

	CONSTANT ENDEAVOUR, Westminster Abbey, Coastal Command and Maritime Air Association.
		The memorial, to ‘Constant Endeavour’ - Coastal Command's motto, is in the South Cloister.
		The part played by Coastal Command airmen, to whom more than half the U-boat sinking were credited, is relatively unknown, as is the finding of the German battleship The Bismark, when she so nearly escaped into the Atlantic Ocean.
		Since the Second World War, Coastal Command and its successor formations have been engaged almost continuously on operational duties such as the Atlantic Vigil during the Cold War, campaigns in Korea, Malaya, Indonesia, the Falklands, The Gulf and the Balkans.
	www.griffon.clara.net /ccmaa/ccmaa_westminster.htm (804 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/RAF Coastal Command
		In the same year a number of newer planes being introduced into the RAF Bomber Command allowed their older bomber designs to be sent to Coastal Command, including numbers of Vickers Wellingtons.
		200 Group was raised from Group level to Command level within Coastal Command in December 1941 as RAF Gibraltar, and remained a Command until again reduced to Group level in 1953 as AHQ Gibralter.
		In 1969 the special-purpose de Haviland Nimrod was introduced into RAF service for this role, and Coastal Command duties were passed onto general squadrons.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Coastal_Command (1203 words)

	British Military Aviation in 1936
		RAF Halton and RAF Cranwell cease to have the status of independent commands and are placed under the newly formed RAF Training Command.
		RAF Coastal Area becomes RAF Coastal Command (Air Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, headquarters in Lee on Solent).
		Although the results of the trial are mixed, the Chief of the Air Staff concludes that they have proved the concept of an RDF system and justified the development of RDF as part of the air defences of the United Kingdom.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /milestones-of-flight/british_military/1936.html (558 words)

	Australian Military Units
		During the Second World War, Britain's Royal Air Force was divided into a number of functional and geographic commands in line with an organisation that had first been implemented in 1936.
		Coastal Command was based in Great Britain and was responsible for all operations over the seas around Great Britain.
		At the outbreak of hostilities, Coastal Command consisted of three operational groups and one training group, but for most of the war it was organised into five groups.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/unit_15124.asp (115 words)

	Endeavour
		A commemorative tribute is to be erected in Westminster Abbey to all who served with RAF Coastal Command and its successive formations, including those from the Commonwealth and Allied Air Forces and others similarly engaged in overseas theatres of war and conflict.
		In that victory RAF Coastal Command, with its comrades from the Commonwealth, played a decisive role with half of the U-boat sinkings credited to its aircrews.
		Their gallantry is epitomised in the four Victoria Crosses, three awarded posthumously, and one George Cross (awarded to a WAAF corporal) won by members of Coastal Command.
	www.northwood.mod.uk /nwood/history/coastal/endeavour.htm (544 words)

	RAAF Museum - Coastal Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		RAF Coastal Command was charged with the protection of allied shipping and the destruction of enemy vessels and submarines in English waters and far out into the Atlantic Ocean.
		Many of the poorly armed and slow-flying Coastal Command were shot down.
		Despite heavy losses in aircraft and crews, Coastal Command helped break the German submarine blockade of England, and played a major role in Germany's final defeat.
	www.raafmuseum.com.au /raaf2/html/b7.htm (138 words)

	Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax - Variants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All Halifax aircraft serving in RAF Coastal Command had the 7.7 mm (0.303 in) machine-guns replaced with 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine-guns as it was standard policy to employ the higher calibre guns where possible in this role.
		Most RAF Coastal Command aircraft also had four-bladed propellers and were often fitted with the F.N.64 ventral turret.
		A single 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine-gun in a new perplex nose became standard on all RAF Coastal Command Halifax aircraft.
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/halifax-v.htm (1913 words)

	Strike and Strike Again
		Tasked with the difficult job of eliminating this force were the Beaufighters and Mosquitos of RAF Coastal Command’s Strike Wings based in Scotland.
		Harold Corbin joined the RAF in November 1940 and was sent to the United States to train as a pilot.
		Joining the RAF in 1939 as a driver, Les Doughty was posted overseas to serve in Iraq.
	www.brooksart.com /Strikeandstrikeagain.html (549 words)

	Atlantic, WW2, convoys, radar, escort carriers, air-gap, U-boats, Liberators
		F Coastal Command continues to patrol for U-boats on passage into the Atlantic.
		Co-operation between RAF Coastal Command and Western Approaches Command is steadily improving.
		Port and dockyard congestion is to be dealt with and the defence of ports greatly improved.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsAtlanticDev.htm (7593 words)

	Liberator III/G.R.V for RAF
		They were equipped with standard RAF 0.303-inch machine guns in the nose, twin 0.303-inch machine guns in each of the waist positions, and twin-0.50-inch gun Martin power turrets in the upper dorsal position.
		No 357 Squadron of Coastal Command served in India, their primary mission being the dropping Nos 159 and 355 Squadrons of Bomber Command flew in the CBI theatre, whereas 178 was stationed in the Middle East and flew missions against targets in North Africa, Sicily, Crete, the Aegean Islands, the Balkans, Italy, and southern Germany.
		A number of B-24Ds were supplied to RAF Coastal Command with an Air-to-Surface- Vessel (ASV) radar mounted in a chin fairing underneath the nose glazing.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher2/b24_10.html (924 words)

	World War II
		That the RAF had not been depleted by a costly reinforcement of France was largely due to Hugh Dowding, the commander-in-chief of Fighter Command, who had insisted on the retention of his force at home.
		Defeat of the RAF had been a prerequisite of the planned German invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion) but the hard-won RAF victory in the Battle of Britain gave the lie to Herman Goering's boast that he would sweep the RAF from the skies in four days.
		On D-Day, 6 June 1944, Allied forces, under the supreme command of General Dwight D Eisenhower, with Arthur Tedder as his deputy and Montgomery as his field commander, launched a second front through a major amphibious landing (Operation Overlord) on von Rundstedt and Rommel in Normandy, France, from Britain.
	www.artzia.com /History/Wars/WWII (2498 words)

	FW Bay of Biscay Scenarios
		Background: The Liberators of the 330th Bomb Squadron were detached to fly antisubmarine patrols for RAF Coastal Command.
		Generate RAF pilots on the "average" column and roll for characteristics..
		Background: The Shortland Sunderland was a large flying boat used for anti-submarine patrols by RAF Coastal Command.
	uncleted.jinak.cz /sbiscay.htm (679 words)

	New Arrivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This Beaufighter was a (Coastal Command) long range escort fighter and carried the full wing armament of six.303 machine guns plus the four 20mm Hispano cannons in the ventral position.
		This Beaufighter was a (Coastal Command) fighter -Flackbeau- was fitted with long range wing tanks in lieu of its wing guns.
		W/C Clostermann was a Free French pilot flying with the RAF from 1942 through the end of the war.
	www.avhistory.org /scripts/Downloads3/download_NewArrivals.asp (3435 words)

	Second World War Books Review
		When Bomber Command resumed operations on 16/17 December with an attack on Berlin by 483 Lancasters and fifteen Mosquitoes, two Beaufighters and two Mosquitoes of 141 Squadron took off from West Raynham on 100 Group's first offensive night-fighter patrols in support of the heavies.
		Bomber Command lost twenty-five Lancasters and a further thirty-four were lost on their return to England owing to very bad weather causing collisions, crashes and some bale-outs after aircraft ran out of fuel.
		Coastal Command, 1939-45: Photographs from the Imperial War Museum.
	www.sonic.net /~bstone/archives/050522.shtml (2152 words)

	Air Commodore ‘Bill’ Tacon -- obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Air Commodore E W “Bill” Tacon, who has died aged 85, was one of the most decorated pilots in RAF Coastal Command before becoming Captain of the King’s Flight.
		Tacon transferred permanently to the RAF in 1946 and was appointed Officer Commanding The King’s Flight at RAF Benson.
		On retirement from the RAF in 1970, he returned to New Zealand with his family, where he ran the Intellectually Handicapped Children’s Society (IHC) and then fulfilled a management role with Air New Zealand before full retirement.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/983864/posts (2207 words)

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