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World War 2 and 'My' Commandos [L.Stevenson : Part 1]

As the R.M. 'green beret' Commandos began to appreciate the gutsy qualities of their little leader...

A Coders D Day Memories

We crouched, all our gas masks to hand, and on the following day, we were transferred from our home town of...

My Life My War - Chapter 5b

The next morning was a catastrophe, my good friend feeling the urge to go in the middle of the night, no...

My Life My War - Chapter 11a

Jack Hylton my buddy from Bremerton was still with us, and together we went ashore on our first liberty......

The Last Great Destroyer Flotilla Action

The rest of the flotilla were allocated attacking sectors as follows: Virago from the SW, Saumarez from the...

My Wartime Years

During training we did aptitude tests and I was selected for RDF. Together with my friend Sid Webber, on...

HMS Barham - Last Month

In the same way, if the body is widely burned, the burned parts throw out great amounts of plasma which are...

Charioteer Mark One - 4

At this depth underwater, movement was slow, but Pearcy was managing to lift up rung after rung, and...

Life Onboard a V and W Destroyer

Mr. Stone was resplendent in red frock coat black trousers with gold braid , and to my amazement informed...

Den's Story

This was the sea port capital of Algeria and Allied Headquarters of World War 2 and the seat of de...

Life on a Submarine

Sixty-five out of sixty-nine people on our submarine got food poisoning. A submarine "day" is at...

Charioteer Mark One - 3

Then I had to keep the speed down, while Pearcy made sure he wasn't left hanging on to the net; he had...

William's Story

My uncle Albert had been a Boy Sailor, he had gone to sea when he was fourteen and seen action in the...

HMS Volage Part Two :The Reluctant Survivors

A week earlier HMS Volage had been involved with an engagement at the Andaman Isle, Indian Ocean, with a...

Operation Jurist and the end of the War

Next day several thousand men were landed to line the streets and provide guards of honour for the...

Shore Service Survivor鈥檚 Leave

We lived in Old Canning Town in the East End of London.In 1940 after a devastating weekend during which...

My Life My War - Chapter 13a

So the Warspite entered the harbour And bombarded the enemy tanks, We plastered the heights and North of...

The Memoirs of Walter Douglas Thain 1918-2001 Part 4 of 4

I had the chance of going up on a bombing mission on a 鈥楪runman鈥� avenger but after six years in...

A Good Morning: Malta 1942

The last naval ship, the Penelope, had managed to sneak out of Grand Harbour and for the first time in...

A Young Boy's War: Chapter 1

There was a message from the Admiralty for my father that the three of us were to find our way to...

EYE WITNESS ON FIREDRAKE, GLASGOW TO SCAPA FLOW

To continue we arrived back in Scapa and I had my special meals again, of all the things I could not face...

EYE WITNESS ON FIREDRAKE, AGROUND OFF MALAGA AND HOME TO CHATHAM

A flotilla of Motor Torpedo Boats was to be towed out to Gibraltar and a concentrated operation was entered...

"Sentenced to Death" said the C-in-C

After expressing his pride in the fact that it was the British XIVth Army that had defeated the Japanese in...

My Life My War - Chapter 12b

But then they saw our colours The yellow, green, red and blue, 鈥淲e're not racing the Foc'sle...

HMS Barham - Battle of Matapan

3 enemy cruisers, 2 large destroyers sunk and one battleship damaged, about 1,500 鈥淚talians鈥�...

The Partisans and the Navy in the Adriatic

H.M.S Avon Vale had arrived after the short overnight trip from Ancona, deep into the Adriatic, in support...