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Campaign Ribbons pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
CAMFIAIGN RIBBONS iS the autobiography of one of those unsung iunior
0fficers who make the services function.John Simmons was a purser who
spent the first half of the Second Wbrid W打on dicey assignments in merchant
ships.He was on the Empress of Australia when she was sent as a combat
troopship during the ill—fated Norwegian expedition of Spring 1940,and he
spent months at sea on the armed merchant cruiser Hilary in the middle of the
Atlantic when U—boats and surface raiders were prowling and came through
that unscathed.He was then posted to the attack transport Keren and did the
1942 Madagascar landing—perhaps more hazardous a shiphandling matter
than the assault itself—then on the Red Sea and the Med’.and the TORCH
(North Africa)and the 1943 HUSKY(Sicily)landings. .
After those relatively unglamorous tasks,in which his principal iob a s a
paymaster was to keep track of everything that was done on the supply side of
the ship.he was sent away to the United States,all the way across to Portland,
Oregon.There he became one of the party of Royal Navy officers responsible
f、0r the supervision of the construction of the new escort aircraft.carrier(CVE)
HMS肋uncer.only to see her used ultimately as an aircraft transport.But the
bright spot for John Simmons.as for many others sent overseas,was to meet
his future wife in Portland.
CAMPIAIGN RI BBONS iS about the unglamorous side of a worldwide war.
Yet it adds to our knowledge of that conflict and of the long periods of patrol
and preparation which were required to bring victory.John Simmons’story
helps balance the picture of the war at sea.
Robin Higham
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Campaign Ribbons pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024