RAF Coastal Command: unsung heroes of WW2
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The Transformation of the Coast Guard
D-Day really showed how the coastal command had been transformed from the Cinderella servers of 1939-40 into the formidable maritime arm of the Air Force in 1943. The job was to make sure that no U-boats got into the English Channel and could cause any havoc with the landing craft and the naval support their method of doing so was to saturate the air over the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay with non-stop patrols. It worked incredibly effectively it was called keeping the cork in the bottle so that the Germans couldn't penetrate the western edges of the English Channel an amazing tribute to the effectiveness of coastal command. Churchill actually wrote to Douglas personally to congratulate him on the
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