1940 RAF Coastal Command

British Newsreel. January 25, 1940. RAF Coastal Command was an organization within the Royal Air Force which defended the United Kingdom from naval threats and countered German U-boats by air.In its early days, other arms of the RAF had priority and Coastal Command had to make do with obsolete planes and weapons. Supplies of aircraft were so short that many units were in fact "on loan" from the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. Their primary weapon was a small bomb that had to hit the submarine. This bomb had a tendency to "skip" off the water, and in one case hit and destroyed the plane that dropped it. Early operations were almost comical, often ending with the U-boat the victor on the occasions they could be found by the aircraft.

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• RAF
• Royal
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• Force
• Coastal
• Command
• U-Boats
• World
• War
• II
• Britain
• North
• Sea
• Submarines
• Airsearch

[skoblinI]

danke, NibelungentreueS!

[olivenstein]

I love the British commentary!

[skoblinI]

Yes...a sort of upper class nonchalance about the whole affair...like it's nothing more than a game of cricket

[olivenstein]

Frightfully so, old boy; we're giving Jerry a jolly good show! Have you found any British newsreels on the Hitler-Stalin pact and/or the Polish theatre in '39?

[skoblinI]

Yes...I have both...about 6 or 7 on Poland and 3 or 4 on the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

[noonsight2010]

@MrBEB123

Nazi scum are causing the destruction. Nazis are not civilised, merely dregs of humanity. Now crawl away and die you traitorous scum. You're an insult to the memory of those who fought against Nazi evil in WW2

[noonsight2010]

@MrBEB123

Ignorant moron. A prime example of the truism "a wise man speaks because he has something to say. A fool speaks because he wants to say something". I'm college educated, have worked I major museums (including the one where I looked after Himmler's death masks!) and am well read - JP Satre, Saul Bellow, Primo Levi,Joseph Heller, Gorge Orwell, Laurie Lee, Solzhenitsyn, Aldous Huxley etc etc etc). So you're a presumptive imbecile! Nazi filth! You're an insult to those who fought.

[MrBEB123]

@noonsight2010 Liberalism is a bigger problem because liberals cause more problems. Wake up clown, it's 2011. Who do you think is destroying western civilization, culture and society ???

[MrBEB123]

@noonsight2010 In the words of Doctor William Luther Pierce, you do not have an idea in your head that wasn't put there by a television set.

[noonsight2010]

@sloany1967

Thanks. We owe an enormous debt to all those who fought Nazism, whether in the forces or in a civilian capacity. Your Dad was doing one of the most dangerous jobs, as I'm sure you already know and probably saved a lot of mariners lives.

[noonsight2010]

@MrBEB123

You filthy Nazi piece of shit. The war was fought to destroy your kind.

[MrBEB123]

@noonsight2010 That is 100% right. World War II was fought to destroy the White race.

[sloany1967]

Hey Noonsight, yes it was during the war and I still have some cool pics from his time there. And thank you I'm sure he would have appreciated your comment.

[noonsight2010]

@skoblinI

Ah, but cricket is a very serious matter!

[noonsight2010]

@sloany1967

Was that during the war?  It must have been amazing going up in the big flying boats. Your Dad deserves a big "thank you".