Description: I. Airspeed Oxford Is stand on airfield in summer. Crews look at maps before climbing in. (96 ft)
II. Members of RAAF 10 Squadron stand beside one of their Sunderlands outside hangar at Mount Batten, Plymouth (100 ft)
III. RAF launch reaches jetty and Group Captain steps out. (9 ft)
IV. Aircrews on airfield. (31 ft)
V. Air-Sea Rescue launch 101 at sea then in harbour beside 120 and 121 (86 ft)
VI. Distant view of smoke over country (near Dover ?). (15 ft)
VII. Families stand in line with their gasmask boxes, cases, dogs and children waiting for evacuation. (30 ft)
VIII. Aerial view of convoy. (12 ft)
IX. RAF sergeants receive classroom instruction in navigation. (70 ft)
X. Crew climb into Oxford I. (19 ft)
XI. General de Gaulle sits at a table reading a French newspaper before passing it to his son Philippe in naval uniform. Headlines indicate tension between USA and Japan, presumably in 1941. (99 ft)
XII. Women work on aircraft assembly. (37 ft)
XIII. Crews stand near four Oxford Is on airfield in summer. (97 ft)
XIV. Gun position of Sunderland on patrol over convoy. (56 ft)
XV. Rubble of bombed housing in summer. (23 ft)
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie de (person)
Gaulle, Philippe de (person)
Royal Air Force, Air-Sea Rescue Service (regiment/service)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
Royal Australian Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - seaplane: Short Sunderland & [Australian] (object name)
aircraft, British - transport: Airspeed Oxford (object name)
destruction, British military - area: bomb (object name)
industry, British - aircraft (object name)
operations, British air - routine (object name)
operations, British naval - escort: convoy (object name)
refugees, British - flight: evacuees (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - assistance: Air-Sea Rescue Launch 101 (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - assistance: Air-Sea Rescue Launch 120 (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - assistance: Air-Sea Rescue Launch 121 (object name)
GB, England & Dover, Kent <White Cliffs> (geography)
GB, England & Plymouth, Devon <Mount Batten Flying Boat Station> (geography)
