Ep.124 – Coastal Command Chapter 3: Battle for the Atlantic

Welcome to our Coastal Command series. This is Chapter 3 – Battle of the Atlantic. In this chapter we discuss the role of RAF Coastal Command in the Battle of the Atlantic, with Mark Lardas.

Bristol Blenheim MkIVF – copyright The Blenheim Society

Mark holds a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and spent his early career at the Johnson Space Centre doing Space Shuttle structural analysis, and space navigation.

An amateur historian and a long-time ship modeller, Mark is currently a freelance writer in Texas and has written multiple books of which two are on the ‘air’ Battle of the Atlantic.

Recorded October 2021

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Mark Lardas

Website: http://www.marklardas.com/about-me/
Books: https://ospreypublishing.com/mark-lardas

Other Useful Links

Seek and Sink – A Symposium on the Battle of the Atlantic for the Royal Air Force Historical Society and the Royal Air Force Staff College https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/Research/RAF-Historical-Society-Journals/Bracknell-No-2-Battle-of-the-Atlantic.pdf
IWM https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-raf-coastal-command-defended-britain-during-the-second-world-war

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ROYAL AIR FORCE COASTAL COMMAND BOEING FLYING FORTRESS, MAY 1943 (TR 1084) A Boeing Flying Fortress Mk IIA, FK186 ‘S’, of No 220 Squadron RAF, based at Benbecula, flying past a Hebridean island. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205018261

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