This is about my father George William Dilksand is taken from a article in the Leicester Mercury newspaper...
Ben had a history project to do on the second world war, Dad suggested that he talked to Nan and Grandad...
The boat motored to the convoy's rescue vessel "Rathlin". Once alongside most of those onboard...
Their destination was Soroy Island, where, for three months, the Norwegian islanders had been hiding from...
In July 1941 at the age of 18 my uncle Eddie from Newry Co Down suddenly tranferred from medical school at...
In June 1941 my father reached Liverpool on the SS Empress of Australia as a survivor from the sinking of...
Further more the Germans had located on the S.E. coast of Norway a radar station at Risor and a night...
On Feb 6th 1945 the destroyer Zealous, joined a convoy of some thirty U S merchant ships on route for Kola...
At the outbreak of World War Two the Second Destroyer Flotilla Leader HMS Hardy was stationed in the...
As I walked up to the catwalk under the flight deck, I observed our second in command, a Lieutenant...
Squiresgate, Silloth, Limavady, Cranwell, Chivenor, Castle Combe, Ein Shemer, Aden, Socotra, Cairo and...
The JU88s were armed with 20mm cannons and the Stirlings only had 7mm Brownings, which were no match, and...
Sugata, then Karl Hendrick, took back with him to Norway the co-ordinates of Pennemunde, the place where...
During his time as a prisoner of war, Jack did many types of hard labour, some of the jobs he had to...
And then I took part in the propaganda raid on the Lofoten islands in the Arctic Circle... They were manned...
SOE Operation to Norway on 29/11/1944. Pilot gives orders to abandon aircraft owing to engines...
Plan R4, carried out in 1940, landed a mixed force of Allied troops in the Lofoten Islands... That is the...
Prinz Eugen in Copenhagen....
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