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Dangerous return to England

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Dangerous return to England

We were stationed, where we're, they sent some ships out and called it the Eastern Fleet. They were old battleships, mostly, and we were, our, our ship was part of that fleet. We weren't, we were there doing what we could, but this group that hit us were the same group that worked over Pearl Harbour and they were the top of their firm. Well we had to go back to England so we were dumped ashore at, at Kenya, Mombasa, in Kenya, and then we went down to, first to Durban, South Africa, by merchant ship, then on to Cape Town, went on a Norwegian's merchant ship travelling alone all the way back to Britain. Which I thought we were, we had no, no idea how lucky we were to make it because that was the height of the submarine war. We went right across the front of them. We had to go for further training, training for lieutenants, at the various specialty schools in Britain. There was the torpedo school, the gunnery school, navigation school, and that sort of thing anyway. That was about four months. That took us to the start of 1943.

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