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Part 5. 'A Journey to and From Greece 1941. By Frank S.Paul (F11E)

The Auckland took us to Suda Bay, Crete, where we boarded the 鈥淚tria鈥�, a British India ship...

City of Benares/Timewatch 大象传媒2.

Then one midnight, the 17th September, 1940 when they were all in their beds a torpedo struck the Benares...

HMS Barham - With Force "H" (4)

Following a two-month spell at Scapa Flow in the summer of 1940, HMS Barham sailed to Freetown, Sierra...

Life in the RN

I next moved to Drake IV station on HMS Brocklesby, a Hunt class destroyer, where I continued as a...

Making a Difference - Experiences of a Black British Serviceman

They were reluctant to accept the fact that the British black servicemen were a different race in social...

Slow Boat to the Orkneys

This train was not a scheduled passenger service but provided for the benefit of servicemen and women...

From Notts to Normandy

And as I say, then it was sort of support all the time, you know, and we were there about, erm, I...

HMS Exeter- a Royal Marine's Story

While we were getting our punishment Commodore Harwood in the Ajax and the Achilles were scoring hits on...

My Night to Remember- The Sinking of the HMS Rawalpindi

The two German ships which sank the Rawalpindi were the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau... Of the 308 members of...

Wartime memories of a young E.R.A. - Part Three

But once you became Chief E.R.A. on a small ship you didn't Watch Keep you were Senior Engineer like...

My War, My Youth

German and Italians planes sank many Royal Navy and Merchant Navy ships with their valuable cargoes...

HMS The King George V

Why we were going to Gibraltar we did not know, although there was a big buzz going round the ship that it...

THE 1939-1945 RUSSIAN GOLD MEDAL - PART TWO

When we arrived in pitch darkness on March 1st, Yeoman Hughes was hanging on to the two handles of a...

Coming into Derry port on a royal Navy corvette

Derry was my home base most of the time during the war.We escorted convoys to St Johns in Newfoundland....

The Silent Service

Often, crews of the Merchant ships would pretend not to understand English, so Freda and her crew would...

Captain Kleiss: Personnel Problems

As a railroad welder, with a wife and kids, he went to a big city post office and saw a poster offering...

HMS Illustrious, Salvage and Malaria

Until we were torpedoed at Dakar in September 1940, I was Aircraft Artificer with HMS Resolution Air...

The Sinking of the Cuba

I said to him, "The Lady is wagging her tail again," which when translated told Alf that the Cuba...

A Boy's Long Sea Voyage to India in 1940

There were 350 children destined for India and other colonies en route to Australia. Amongst those whose...

Part 3: Rexs' War

When I landed in Liverpool I rang Gwen to say I was back. From the THORNBOROUGH I went back down to...

A Destroyer and Aircraft Carrier at War by Jack Taylor Chapter 6, Farewell Electra, on to the big ships

A Destroyer and Aircraft Carrier at War by Jack Taylor Chapter 6, Farewell Electra, on to the big ships....

My journey home in 1944

My 16 year old brother was at school in England. Many passengers went to see the captain to ask if they...

A Midshipman's Story 1940

One of her guests was a Lieutenant Commander RNR, the CO of a mobile anti-tank unit stationed at HMS Drake...

The Mulberry Hardbour

As the day for the invasion of Europe loomed St Martin was sent down to Portland to take part in towing the...

One Man's War -Part 31: June 10,1945 -- July 24, Back to the War continued

On this same day, Lt. George Vigeant's plane was struck by enemy antiaircraft fire and he was forced to...

Anzio

But then the Germans poured in troops and Panzer armoured divisions and established a highly-fortified line...