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The Assault on Madagascar

The huge land locked harbour of Diego Suarez and Port of Antisirane, Madagascar, were the primary...

A Life in the Navy

At the outbreak of war I was in Rio de Janeiro serving as first officer on the cargo vessel La Estancia....

Operation 'Dragoon'

Once again our 鈥楽kipper鈥� Lt. Sam Armstrong DSC, RNVR, cleared lower decks and told us our...

To Russia and Back

I was just sixteen years old when I joined Silver Lines SS Silverceder as a Peggy, as a deck boy I ran...

D-Day: First Day Ashore

My Commanding Officer came to the vehicles and personally shook my hand in front of the men and said good...

My War at Sea

The captain called this a 'spoof'. With the shorter days we resumed convoy work, but at night time...

HMS Barham - Scapa Flow: August 21st-24th, 1940

Before joining Vice Admiral Somerville's 鈥淗鈥� Force in the Western Mediterranean in late...

My Father's War

Other war stories had been asked for to show what our servicemen had endured and the following words were...

War Brides

While waiting for his BYMS to be built, he was billeted at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel in Manhattan where...

The Navy is always right !

After a short stay in Cochin we then travelled to Ceylon arriving in Colombo harbour where the air squadron...

A Night at the Opera: Life Onboard Landing Craft LST237

"First of all I sailed on The Empress of Scotland to America and by train to pick the ship up at the...

D-Day and The Gooseberry, 6th June 1944

As a coxswain of minor landing craft, the coxswain was in charge of the craft and crew which consisted...

The world war 2 story of George William Ewens

In April 1945 we sailed to the Far East through the Mediterranean and up the Suez canal until we came to a...

Memories From The Invasion of France D-Day June 6th 1944

Memories From The Invasion Of France D. Day June 6th 1944 By Sydney Charles Wagstaff B E M HMS Fury. After...

A Story On The Wild Side

Our flotilla, the 52nd, which consisted of 8 torpedo boats under the command of Lt Cdr Bobby Nye, received...

"HMS Jason" comes under friendly fire after the D-Day landings by Thomas Jackson

Sixty years ago on August 27th 1944, I was 22 years of age, on board His Majesty's Royal Navy Ship...

The Sinking of the Latona

I had been thinking about returning below ship when I realised that my steel helmet was missing, while...

Survivor of the Burma-Siam Railway

He and the others were "rescued" by the Japanese navy and eventually ended up in a jungle clearing...

HMS Barham - Back in the Mediterranean

HMS Barham 鈥� Back in the Mediterranean. After two months undergoing repairs in Durban, South Africa,...

D-Day +

We awoke real early to the noise of many, many aircraft, so we went out of the house and looked up, the...

My life at sea

Tom says the Canadians from the Prince Albert and Prince David were all in their kilts which was something...

Les Baker's Letter Home. Pt.l. Journey to Singapore

Well Mum as you know already I managed to get Tom in the same cabin as I on the boat "Capetown...

HMS Bellona---Arctic Convoys

Bellona participitated in 6 Russian Convoys and shot down at least 2 enemy aircraft- 1944 JW 62 Nov/Dec...

Escape from Singapore

Midshipman Leach gave me a letter to take to HMS Prince of Wales with strict instructions to deliver it to...

The Gold Convoy

I left the Belfast after D-Day and joined HMS Ocean; a Light Fleet Carrier with 25 planes. I went down to...

HMS Royal Arthur: Skegness

Skegness, bathed in wintry sunshine, looked good, smelled great that March morning 1941, the squalling...