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The Attack on the Rangitane

The liner, of the New Zealand shipping company, captain H L Upton, was intercepted and sunk by a German...

Oriental Adventures

We joined up in Durban with the battleship HMS Ramilles, aircraft carrier HMS Wasp, the cruiser HMS Ceylon,...

GHOST WEAPONS OF MALTA

Having served 2½ years in the Navy on landing craft, I became friends with Lieutenant Commander PG...

Pearl Harbor

Later in the war Herb commanded a destroyer in the US Pacific fleet and by 1945 was in command of the USS...

The Invasion of Sicily

Just then, with the falling sea, the keel of the LCA caught on a stabilising beam, threatening to tip all...

The Last Days

The Japanese had left in a small merchantman which was eventually stopped in the Banda Sea by an American...

Ken's War: memories of HMS Teazer

In 1941 my parents and I were bombed out of our home in Bristol. Food distribution was a reserved...

Shelmerdine - Vignettes 8 - Biscay Cruise Jan 1943

These were enhanced on getting on board: there was nothing wrong with the quality of the ship, as it was...

Leading Ferret Barney

The signals post was at Stoke Point, overlooking Plymouth Sound, about 4 miles from the village of Noss...

Ernie Holtbys War

From there we went to Rosythe nr Edinburgh, down to Plymouth, where we picked up the first Lord of the...

north atlantic

My name is Grahame Morris and in 1941, as a 19 year old, I was serving as Third Radio Officer aboard the...

Battle of the Atlantic Part One

My name is Grahame Morris and in 1941, as a 19 year old, I was serving as Third Radio Officer aboard the...

A Six-Week Journey that Never got us Home

Mrs Kendall was a very large lady, both fore and aft, and a very talented young man sketched a clever...

WORLD WAR II Service details from Edward Astley Jones:

Extracts from "No longer sings the lark"

The door burst open and a cheerful individual in sailor's uniform, with an anchor on his arm, announced...

Back to Alex

We eventually left Alexandria and proceeded at the great speed of ten knots through the Suez canal and Red...

H.M.S. Cossack Side Party 50 Years On

Lieutenant Cussins leapt over the side onto the disintegrating sampan and managed to haul AH-MA from the...

Far Away Places with Familiar Faces.

I was then posted to an armed merchant cruiser HMS Alaunia, joining the ship at Liverpool... When I came...

Operation Vigorous

In June 1942 I embarked with a few other R.A.F. personnel on M.V. City of Pretoria and set sail in a convoy...

HMS Royal Arthur 1943

After the six weeks had ended I was drafted to civilian billets in Brighton to learn Morse and then on to...

One Man's War: December 7, 1941 - July 8, 1942 Attack on Pearl Harbour

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was about two o'clock p.m. Iowa time, my brother,...

WRNS Radar Mechanic in the Fleet Air Arm

Later I was drafted back to HMS Ariel where I remember on one occasion round-the-clock work fitting cables...

Bad Memories

We were in Montreal for about two months, we were first British seaman as a ships crew EVER to be in...

MINESWEEPING MEMORIES

I didn't want to go into the Army as I wanted to help save life not take it, so I joined the...

Royal Corps of Signals - Costa Rica

Mr Joseph Welch's story from the Royal Corps of Signals — Costa Rica I went abroad on 24th June...

Our Frank

Name of unit: HM Submarine Stratagem, Royal Navy. It was then that he joined the ill-fated crew of HM...