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Secret Operation by Robert Taylor.
Submariners are a special breed of sailor. Their environment, operating deep beneath the surface of the waves, is both unnatural and dangerous, and demands men of cool courage and exceptional quality. Prowling the depths like a mammoth shark, sometimes hunted, submarine crews live and fight, and sometimes die together, alone in the remote expanses of the worlds great oceans. Regardless of national flag under which they sail, this small elite Silent Service is both feared and admired by all who sail the seas. Plying their deadly trade in World War Two, the German U-boats posed such threat to the vital Atlantic convoys; Winston Churchill feared the submarine threat more than anything Hitler had at his disposal. Hunting in wolf packs, roaming the shipping lanes far beyond the reach of protective aircraft, they decimated the Allied merchant vessels during the Battle of the Atlantic. Manned entirely by volunteers, British and American submarines saw action in every maritime theatre during.........
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| | Item Code : DHM2150 | Secret Operation by Robert Taylor. - Editions Available | |
| | DESCRIPTION | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | PRICE | PURCHASING | PACKS | Signed limited edition of 700 prints.
Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item! | Image size 13.5 inches x 10 inches (34cm x 25cm) |
McGeoch, Ian | | Vice-Admiral Sir lan McGeoch KCB DSO DFC (deceased) |
| Ian McGeoch was born in Helensburgh on 26th March 1914 and was educated at Pangbourne Nautical College, and in 1931 joined the Royal Navy as a special entry cadet. From 1933, Megeoch served as a midshipman on the HMS Royal Oak in 1933 then on the destroyer HMS Boadicea before moving on to the cruiser HMS Devonshire. McGeoch volunteered to serve on submarines and in 1936 attended the course at HMS Dolphin. Promoted to Lieutenant, McGeoch joined HMS Clyde at Malta. When war broke out he was |
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Lumby, Michael | | Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Lumby KCB, OBE, DSO, DSC (deceased) |
| Captain Michael Lumby, DSO, DSC Wartime Submarine Captain. Born 17th Sept 1917 - Died Dec 7th 2001 Aged 84. Submarine skipper who wreaked mayhem on axis shipping. From a Newspaper article sent in by Vic Buxton. Michael Lumby'S war service in command of the submarine Saracen was unusual in that he was one of very few submariners who sank two enemy submarines - in his case one German and one Italian. In the summer of 1942 Saracen was a new submarine and Lumby her first captain. She was working |
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McIntosh, Ian | | Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McIntosh KBE, CB, DSO, DSC (deceased) |
| Ian Stewart McIntosh was born in Melbourne on October 11th 1919, and educated at Geelong Grammar School. lan Mclntosh volunteered for the navy in his native Australia in 1938 aged 18. McIntosh joined the submarine training course at HMS Dolphin on 30th December 1940. He was awarded the King's Dirk for graduating top of his class at Dartmouth and elected to qualify as a submariner in late 1940. On joining his first submarine, Porpoise, in 1941, at the time undertaking mine laying operatio |
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Young, Edward | | Commander Edward Young DSO, DSC*, RNV (S) R (deceased) |
| Edward Young was born in 1913 and, after leaving Highgate School, joined The Bodley Head as an office boy. Edward Young worked for Penguin for the Reprint Society in 1939. As a keen yachtsman and maritime student in civilian life, he qualified for direct entry into the RNVR as a sub-lieutenant at the outbreak of war and, having volunteered for submarines, went on his first patrol in the ancient submarine H28 in October 1940. Serving next in the brand new Umpire in July 1941, he was below in t |
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