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They sent a second signal, and then a Wren Officer came across in a small launch, with a Wren Coxswain. The...
Our task was to illuminate defensive German gun positions for Wellington bombers to hit - when our flares...
Sub.Lieutenant Findlay and Captain Thomas finished theirs and decided to go on deck to see how things were...
The men who were lost when the submarine sank, Lieutenant Anthony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier,...
When the coded message was received, we were told to get into the landing craft, which was supposed to take...
My father was in the Royal Navy and during D-Day he was involved in the landing of a contingent of Scottish...
I have an identical twin brother, John, and in 1940-41 we were both involved in North Africa, Greece and...
During 1940-41, I served with the battleship HMS Revenge on convoy escort duties to and from Halifax, Nova...
I am writing this story on behalf of my father Thomas Bannerman who was a " Pom-Pom " gunner on HMS...
On arrival his mother immediately informed us there was a rumour that the Glen Miller Orchestra might be...
I was a charioteer based in HMS Phoenix, which was a ‘stone-walled frigate’ dug out of the...
A cruiser called HMS Curacao met us 200 miles off the coast to escort us into Greenock. I estimate that...
We anchored in Dunkirk harbour on Hydrophone watch ad heard large explosion , went on upper deck and saw...
We were about to sit down to tea with Uncle Frank, Aunt Annie and the twins, when there was a commotion in...
My older brother Walter McFadyen was KIA on HMS Hood, the following day the vessel on which I had until...
The compliment of his craft was 2 Stokers;2 Seamen; one L/H seaman and a Coxswain Petty Officer Willey...
It crashed into the deck of the aircraft carrier and burst into flames. We all stood at the muster station...
The Lincolnshire town of Spalding collected £3,560 during Warships Week in 1942 and bought HMS Taku...
Dear Mum and Dad. Well Dad, all I can say is, if jerry can't do better, he'd better pack in, for if...
A direct hit on the Bridge of this craft was scored by the enemy almost immediately, with an A/P shell of...
Submarine detector operator I served on HMCS Snowberry as a submarine detector operator from April 1941 to...
On the aerodrome at Ukussa, he describes a quite bizzare scene, as the most modern aircraft then available...
On the 25th of August he sailed with the Grenville accompanied by the Canadian destroyer Athabaskan to join...
I saw a child's tricycle but no child, there were dead bodies all around me....
HMS Rajah was a Ruler class escort carrier built in the USA at Seattle-Tacoma as USS Mclure AVG 45 - ACV 45...
My father, John McCredie, was a Royal Marine who served initially on HMS Birmingham and then from El...
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