SUK15098 Accession Number: SUK15098

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RAF Station Pembroke Dock, Wales. C. 1941-12. Portrait of Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) R. E. Burrage (left), the captain of a Sunderland aircraft of No. 10 Squadron RAAF which had alighted on the sea to rescue the crew of a British bomber aircraft which had come down in the Atlantic and drifted for hours in a two-man dinghy before being sighted by the crew of the Sunderland with RAF Coastal Command. With Flt Lt Burrage is the captain of the British bomber aircraft.

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Accession Number
SUK15098
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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