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A Coastal Command ‘Destroyer’ - First photograph ever to be taken of torpedoes being dropped from Beaufort aircraft of Coastal Command

photograph, photograph

Accession Number

NAM.2009-11-4-119

Description

A Coastal Command ‘Destroyer’ - First photograph ever to be taken of torpedoes being dropped from Beaufort aircraft of Coastal Command Photograph of torpedoes being dropped from Beaufort aircraft of Coastal Command during a practice flight, January 1942. From a collection of 185 photographs of Japanese, Chinese, Indian, British, German and American soldiers, aircraft, aerial photography and ships at sea. Associated with World War Two, Air Operations (1939-1945) and World War Two, War at Sea (1939-1945).

Campaigns

World War Two, Air Operations (1939-1945), World War Two, War at Sea (1939-1945)

Units

Coastal Command, Royal Air Force

Inscriptions

Caption: ‘A Coastal Command ‘Destroyer’ / Jan. 1942. / First photographs ever to be taken of torpedoes being dropped from Beaufort aircraft of Coastal Command. This fine aircraft, ideal for the job, carries the ‘tin fish’ in a recess in the fuselage, and its use against Nazi coastal traffic from Norway to the Mediterranean in support of the activities of the Royal Navy should do much to shorten the war. A Column of Water Rising from the Sea as a Torpedo Dropped from a Coastal Command Beaufort Hits the Water During a Practice Flight.’