2-715-323 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

RAF personnel learning to use a dinghy, 1941. Airmen at training school during the Second World War: 'Getting into and out of a rubber dinghy is a difficult job until the process has been practised and mastered...the carrying of a dinghy [in the aircraft] and the full knowledge of how to use it among the crew may mean the difference between life and death.' From "The Royal Air Force in Pictures", 2nd edition, by World War I flying ace Major Oliver Stewart. [Country Life Ltd, London, 1941]