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I had just arrived from Gilbralter on board HMS Dido a cruiser, i was to join Hms Aurora light cruiser which was unfortunately lying in dry dock No:5 in Malta harbour with damage to her bows. After a ...

A SAILOR who manned one of the first landing craft to hit the Normandy beaches on D-Day in 1944 has died aged 87. Royal Navy engineer John Chapman had also served on the light cruiser HMS Aurora and ...

A SAILOR who manned one of the first landing craft to hit the Normandy beaches on D-Day in 1944 has died aged 87. Royal Navy engineer John Chapman had also served on the light cruiser HMS Aurora and ...

Tommy Shiels at Larne by BBC Radio Ulster. The transcription was by Bruce Logan. I was on the ‘A’ gun. Some of them got away, and we were still on the guns up forward. After a while they says “Abandon ...

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