I would very much like to find a history of this ship which must have been written by someone who knew her intimately having perhaps served out his wartime years as a member of her crew. I remember speaking in a church in Aptos, California -a seaside town some 100k south of…
Strange that the things that have stayed in my memory concerning my school days at Toowoomba Grammar have not been academic endeavours, such as they were, or any of the other serious matters for which my father was paying out good money to keep me there as a boarder, but…
The Air Force had their own particular jargon and whenever they went out to drop mines in enemy waters it was always ‘to plant vegetables.’ From the earliest months of the war mine laying had been a feature of RAF operations. The earliest sortie was by 15 Hampdens on 13/14…