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- D1A single attributed public source (museum, council, Historic England, CWGC, mapping data).
- D2Two or more independent public sources corroborate the same facts.
- D3A named coordinator or local reviewer has confirmed the public-source account.
- D4A named observer has personally visited and documented the site — photographs, inscriptions, condition.
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Overlooking the Firth of Forth at North Berwick stands the Scottish national memorial to RAF Coastal Command, whose crews flew the long anti-submarine and convoy-escort patrols of the Battle of the Atlantic. Coastal Command sank or shared in sinking more than half of all U-boats lost to air attack and located the battleship Bismarck; 10,875 of its aircrew died.
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What this page does not claim
- This commemorates RAF Coastal Command (the Battle of the Atlantic air war, all Allied crews), not Soviet forces; the convoy war it commemorates includes but is not limited to the Arctic route.
- 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 RAF Coastal Command Memorial, North Berwick (Battle of the Atlantic air crews).
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