With The Coastal Command: The Australian Flying Boat Squadron

(9 Dec 1940) At a British Coastal Station crews of an Australian Flying Boat Squadron report for operation orders. We fly with them on a patrol in their huge Sunderland Flying Boat, along some of Britain's Atlantic coastline.
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[@christiley5654]

My Dad, Albert Mead, RAAF, was a rear gunner attached to Coastal Command 1940-1942 and flew out of Plymouth. I still have many photos he took of his war experience. He survived the war but died in 1974, aged 56, of war related injuries. These men were true heroes.

[@davidgill2592]

The take-off & landing clips shown were at RAF Mountbatten at Plymouth. My father served on Sunderlands here (his home town) until the Aussies arrived, whereupon he was posted to Abbotsinch and after training on Catalinas he was sent to Mombasa, Kenya.

[@hanziwatdan5373]

Mighty Sunderland 😍

[@robertpennington5247]

Fell in love with the Sunderland after reading They shall not pass unseen by Ivan Southal

[@gringotom242]

What a breifing. Go there, then go there, then come home before dusk :-D. My Grandad was a radio operator at a sunderland base in West Africa for the RAF coastal command.

[@AussieVet]

My Grandfather was a wireless op in this SQN.