Preparing to Land in Japan

My father, Charles Drew was a Senior Inspector of Booms during the war, at Rosyth dockyard. He was also working on a landing craft, shaped like a saucer, which was suitable to land troops and their equipment right onto the shores of Japan and worked with the americans and our Navy on this project. He was set to go out there when the Atom Bomb fell and his work was not required. He was the first to be pleased though that the war was over though his work was perhaps wasted.

About twenty or more years later, I was teaching in a major city in England when a new member of staff mentioned in the staff room that he had just finished working in the British war Museum in London. We had never met before and it was a comment to all the staff when he told us his first job at the Museum had been to edit the 'Drew Ferry'film. You can imagine my feelings, dad had died only a few months before. Anyway the member of staff concerned kindly arranged for our family to see the film at the Brit War Museum and so we saw my father at work!

Quite a coincidence don't you think?

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