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.
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.