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Coastal Command is a British film of genre War released in USA on 17 april 1944

Coastal Command (1942)

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Released in USA 17 april 1944
Length 1h13
Genres War,    Documentary
Rating66% 3.345083.345083.345083.345083.34508

Coastal Command is a 1943 British film made by the Crown Film Unit for the Ministry of Information. The film, distributed by RKO, dramatised the work of RAF Coastal Command.

Coastal Command is a documentary-style account of the Short Sunderland and Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. The film includes real footage of attacks on a major enemy ship by Hudson and Halifax bombers based in Iceland.

Synopsis

In 1942, a Sunderland flying boat with Pilot Roger Hunter and Flight Sergeant Charles Norman Lewis as crew, set out on a patrol, flying out of their Scotland air base.

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