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Top left a half length portrait of a man sitting in shirt sleeves. In the background other people. Captioned 'Ron Huntley'. Bottom right - air to sea view of a high speed launch on the right heading left towards a dinghy bottom left. Captioned 'This…

Eight RAF personnel in a variety of uniform gathered on the deck of a small launch. Submitted with caption 'Crew 1234 & 2641'. On the reverse 'Back Row Peter L[..], Cpl Wor[..], F Officer Saunders, skipper, Bill White, Carnley, Front Row Sandy Ares,…

Side view of an RAF high speed launch number 2641.

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Side view of an RAF high speed launch number 2641.

This item was provided, in digital form, by a third-party organisation which used technical specifications and operational protocols that may differ from those used by the IBCC Digital Archive.

Account of the operation to locate a German submarine and shooting down of a United States Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator by a Ju 88 in February 1944. Author is the nose gunner/bomb aimer and describes the operation, attack by fighters, ditching, escape to…

Ronald Huntley enlisted in the Royal Air Force as a flight mechanic before volunteering to join Air Sea Rescue. Born in Edmonton, London, he represented his school in athletics at Crystal Palace and witnessed its destruction by fire in 1936. After…