Alarm Starboard!: A Remarkable True Story of the War at Sea by Geoffrey Brooke

Author:Geoffrey Brooke [Brooke, Geoffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2004-10-13T22:00:00+00:00

*Now Rear-Admiral Sir Peter and Captain, Royal Navy, respectively.

*When Singapore fell, Clark got away in a launch, but was sunk by a destroyer in the Banka Strait and taken prisoner after swimming for a whole day with a badly broken arm.

*The victor of a brilliant campaign in East Africa culminating in the capture of Keren.

*Dick Beckworth’s gallant end was not to be known until after the war. See page 275.

*39 years later I discovered it was Pool! He and his Fairmile had taken part in the Rose Force operation and then excelled in a night action in the Johore Strait, sinking Japanese invasion craft (for which he was to receive the DSC). He did evacuate Admiral Spooner and Air Marshal Pulford but met a Jap destroyer near the Banka Strait and had to beach on an uninhabited island. When Pool was captured many weeks later, the Admiral, Air Marshal and most of the party had died of disease or starvation.

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