Product Description: In order to qualify for membership of The Goldfish Club one has to have ditched one's aircraft in the sea and then, naturally, to have been rescued, probably by the RAF Air Sea Rescue services. Jim Burtt-Smith, who has for many years been Chairman of the Club, teamed up with John French to record accounts of ditching from all over the world...read more

Product Description: A collection of accounts of ditchings during World War Two, in which RAF crews abandoned their damaged aircraft in the sea and spent hours - often days - afloat on hostile waters in a rubber dinghy or supported by an inflatable jacket. Includes reports from former ASR personnel. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)