Picture No | 10652688 |
Date | 1940 |
Description | German rescue buoy in Channel by G. H. Davis |
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Rettungsboje -- nicknamed lobster pots by the RAF -- German rescue buoys anchored in the English Channel during the Second World War. A diagrammatic drawing of one of the new German rescue buoys anchored ten miles off the French coast for use by German crews forced down by RAF action.
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Source | Illustration by George Horace Davis in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 7 December 1940, page 737 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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