RAF personnel learning to use a dinghy, 1941. Airmen at training school during the Second World War: 'Dinghy drill forms part of the training...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]