The launch was posted to the 1151 MCU in 1972, and when the unit was disbanded six years later, it was one of two RAF rescue launches presented to the AFM. In line with its naming conventions at ...

Royal Air Force Article ID: ... A RAF Rescue Launch came down to St Peter Port with a high-ranking German officer, prisoner-of-war, with an Army major in charge of him, ...

And out of the ten crew on board, 9 were rescued by the RAF rescue launch and one went down with the plane.” He was the only person on board the bomber who didn’t survive the crash.