- Contributed by
- Dave Thacker
- People in story:
- Leonard Stanley Thacker
- Location of story:
- Naples, Italy.
- Background to story:
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:
- A6196476
- Contributed on:
- 18 October 2005
American troops embarked on Thruster at Naples before Operation Shingle, January 1944.
This story is submitted to the People's War Website by David Thacker, a volunteer from BBC Radio Northampton, on behalf of his Mother, Isabella, wife of the late Len Thacker, and has been added to the site with her permission. She fully understands and accepts the site's terms and conditions.
Continued here are Len's words written in a W/T Operator's Log book, about the Anzio Operation (Shingle)in 1944. He is believed to have written this soon after the war's end:
"After our second trip, we were pronounced “Operationally Unfit” and lay in Naples. Meanwhile we were hearing by radio how hot things were up there. Bombing went on ceaselessly. The cruiser Spartan and destroyer Inglefield were sunk. Jerry also made great use of glider bombs and rocket bombs.
Fortunately we didn’t go back again until things had quietened".
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