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Originally Posted by 2mnycars
I was a Navy brat. By grade 11 I had gone to 11 schools. My Father was an Airman, enlisting in the RC Air Force in '35 or so. He took leave, and went to university, where he received Army training...In '40? He joined the Wavy Navy and was assigned as a radar officer on cruisers in the Royal Navy serving in the Mediterranean. He wrote a book and published it just before his death in '93. He had retired as a Captain in the Royal Canadian Navy.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=IM1S...ed=0CDQQ6AEwAA
When I was 10 we moved to the US. He had been serving at sea for 8 years or so, including the Korean War. |
Dave,
It sounds like your Dad was quite a fellow. My father trained as a navigator and weatherman for service in B-29s during WWII. The war ended shortly before he would have shipped out for overseas duty.
Most people don't realize that radar was one of the Allies' "secret weapons." I believe it was instrumental in the defense of England during the "Battle of Britain." Is your Dad's book still in print?
Rick