The Coastal Command Window
From the Publication "Flight", June 1957
SERVICE AVIATION
Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News
Northwood Commemoration
TOMORROW at the headquarters of Coastal Command—R.A.F. Northwood, Middlesex—a 700-piece stained-glass window is to be unveiled to mark the Command's 21st birthday and to commemorate its achievements during the Second World War. The layout of the window, which is lift wide and 12ft 6in high, has been planned by A.V-M. C. E. Chilton (S.A.S.O. at Coastal Command H.Q. and A.O.C. Malta-designate) and A/C. (now Mr.) N. R. Attwood. The dominating feature of the window—which was designed by Mr. Attwood in his spare time while serving at Northwood—is a figure in flying clothing, representing aircrews from all the Allied countries who fought the U-boats; beneath his feet are the weapons used in the shipping war, and in the lower section of the window are the convoys which Coastal Command (in co-operation with the Royal and Allied Navies) guarded daily.
The window is to be unveiled by Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, a former A.O.C-in-C. Coastal Command, after a short address given by the present A.O.C-in-C, Air Marshal Sir Bryan V. Reynolds. A.V-M. Chilton will read a description of the window, which will then be dedicated by Canon A. S. Giles, Chaplain-in-Chief of the R.A.F