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- Malcolm Sutcliffe
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- Royal Navy
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- 16 February 2005
I joined the Navy at 18, having been a Sea Cadet and I served for 4 years in the Channel and North Atlantic convoys.
I was in the Dieppe raid with the Canadians in 1942. The raid was a disaster because they were more or less waiting for us, but the Canadian soldiers were heroes. The idea was to capture a port, but this was impossible and about 2000 died and 2000 were wouned and captured. We lost about 120 aircraft, 140 small boats and a Destroyer called the Berkley.
We hit a mine in the Channel in 1943. We were on patrol looking for E-Boats and hit a mine which blew a hole in the bows and we had to go stern first back to Portsmouth to be repaired.
In operation Torch to North Africa we escorted the boats down and came back.
In D-Day we bombarded the pill-boxes on the beach head at Sword and Juno in Normandy. We then patrolled at night to protect the troops that were landing
Ended up in the East Indies Fleet, taking the Japanese surrender at Port Swettenham.
Then came home and was de-mobbed at the age of 22.
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