Using archive news reviews and official RAF film records of the period, Coastal Command - A Service Overview surveys the seaplanes and flying boats, the missions and the men and women that protected Britain's sea lanes and shores from the Nazi onslaught and averted possible starvation for the British. In a later account about the boredom of long sorties in the Shackleton, a pilot explained how he coped: 'I spend one hour flying, one hour sleeping and one hour contemplating sexual matters!'
