Author: Whinney, Bob,
Title: THE U-BOAT PERIL - A Fight for Survival.
Description: Cassell & Co,London,1985, reprint, trade paperback, 160pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps, line drawings and half tone ill. in text, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, in the Cassell Military Paperbacks series, the memoirs of a naval officer, from cadet at Dartmouth, Midshipman in HMS Royal Sovereign, a Sub-Lt. in HMS Rodney at Invergordon at the time of the mutiny, at the outbreak of WW2 he was with the 5th Destroyer Flotilla in HMS Duncan on the China Station, the flotilla being transferred to home waters. Further service in HMS Cossack as A/S Officer to the 4th Flotilla, posting as A/S Officer South Atlantic Fleet at Freetown and in March 1943 his first command, the destroyer HMS Wanderer. Service then in Western Approaches joining B1 Escort Group, in the Arctic with Support Group EG1 and at Normandy, he was involved during his service in the sinking of U-305, U-390 and U-523, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

Keywords: war ww2 navy destroyer anti submarine wanderer duncan cossack u-boat u-305 u-390 u-523 normandy arctic convoy escort


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