"Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Coastal Command" A total of 26 Fleet Air Arm squadrons were assigned to Coastal Command for varying periods during the war, most with NO 16 Group on the South Coast. Here, pilot Lieutenant S M Walsh (left), and his observer, Sub-Lieutenant G M Patrick (centre) of No 841 Squadron , are photographed in front of their Fairey Albacore at Manston, while being debriefed after an anti-E-boat sortie by Lieutenant J W Neale, a veteran of the Swordfish attack on Taranto.