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The airmail letters do not have sufficient advantage over the sea route to make their regular use justified...
During the afternoon I was on deck when a Jerry radio controlled glider bomb passed over us at over 300...
Eventually, when we landed, our first job was to breach the sea defences at a place called Courseulles in...
About halfway between Halifax and Iceland we received orders to scatter the convoy as the German battleship...
One evening, which I will never forget, was when Nanna Slee and Granpa Charlie had the six o'clock news...
En route to Scapa Flow, Barham had a disastrous collision with HMS Duchess and was later torpedoed off the...
In the end, we were the last convoy to leave Norway and, very luckily for us, were twenty four hours behind...
I arrived as ordered and found my office and quarters were on the HMS 'Dunluce Castle', which was...
The ship was built by Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland, Oregon, so it wasn't surprising to...
Vic Crow was on watch, and because the boats were smashing to and fro against each other, so violently that...
They must have been chortling up there, assuming Japanese torpedo bomber and fighter bomber aircraft pilots...
But in particular and in June 1944, Norman was aboard a tank landing craft in the Solent waiting out the...
The police car with Birdie and the lobsters arrived on the dock... While Birdie boiled the lobsters, the...
About April 1944 we were transferred to Immingham on the Humber from where we did nightly patrols to thwart...
Arrived at Greenock on September 29th.New orders to proceed to Liverpool... March 8th leave Liverpool for...
Although only four boats made it to the fjord to attack, all the crews were at the same peak. He and I...
Over the years he regaled me with his stories, he let me into his rollicking world of illiterate trawler...
En route to Scapa Flow, Barham had a disastrous collision with HMS Duchess and was later torpedoed off the...
Change in our geographic position made our mails home very irregular and infrequent, so I thought it better...
Among the officers reported missing is Lieutenant Harold Jackson Cholerton RNR of Brighton, navigating...
Alfred Longbottom of Halifax in West Yorkshire spent the Second World War years in the Royal Navy and three...
When the time came, when I was sixteen, I joined the Royal Navy as a boy, training for boys in the Royal...
Offering to take us on trips in the area, One day two mates and myself were offered a trip to the top...
I first served as a stoker in the Tribal Class destroyer HMS Afridi which was bombed and sunk in the first...
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