Australian and New Zealand bomber aircrew receive instruction in the use of a rescue dinghy at an Operational Training Unit, England, c. 1942. There are no statistics on how many bomber crew owed their survival to such dinghies, but one who did was RAAF Sergeant Stewart-Moore, of No. 7 Squadron RAF. The bomber in which Stewart-Moore was returning from an operation to Hamburg on 27 July 1942 at low level along the River Elbe was hit by enemy fire. The plane crashed in the water but four of the crew, including Stewart-Moore, managed to escape the wreck in a dinghy. [AWM SUK10166]
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AWM SUK10166
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England
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