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| Keywords: U-454 sinkt.jpg en Bay of Biscay C 1943-08-06 A Sunderland aircraft of the famous No 10 Squadron RAAF of Coastal Command sighted a U-boat while on anti-submarine patrol It attacked and sank the enemy craft but was itself hit by flak and compelled to ditch Survivors were rescued by a sloop of the Royal Navy where it chanced that a member of the same squadron 2058 Flight Lieutenant J B Jewell DFC of Adelaide SA was spending his leave under the scheme for closer co-operation between the RAF and the Navy Here a rope is being thrown from the sloop to the survivors of the Sunderland who are clinging to a portion of the starboard wing which had broken off with its float attached http //cas awm gov au RAAF Photographer 6 8 1943 PD-Australia Short Sunderland Type VII submarines | ||||
