The programme reconstructs three typical days in the lives of a Coastal Command squadron. Listeners are taken behind the scenes and shown what an anti-U-boat bombing exercise is like. what is said at the briefings before patrol, and at the interrogations afterwards.
Written and produced by Leonard Cottrell , with the co-operation of the Air Ministry. Music by Vaughan Williams , played by the London Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Muir Mathieson