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At Pembroke Dock — at its wartime peak the largest flying-boat base in the world — a memorial window in the public library honours the airmen of RAF Coastal Command who flew Short Sunderland and Catalina flying boats from here in the Battle of the Atlantic, hunting U-boats and protecting the convoys. It carries the crests of the British, Australian, Canadian, Dutch and American squadrons that served at the base.
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What this page does not claim
- This honours the Coastal Command flying-boat squadrons of the Battle of the Atlantic, an Allied campaign; it is not specifically a Soviet or Arctic-convoy memorial, though the Atlantic convoy war it commemorates was part of the same struggle.
- Names of individuals are not reproduced in this discovery record.
- Endorsement by any named institution; the source is cited for documentary research only.
Sources
- AImperial War Museums — IWM War Memorials Register record for the Pembroke Dock Battle of the Atlantic memorial window (Coastal Command flying-boat squadrons).
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