The Fighting Captain - Frederic John Walker RN and the Battle of the Atlantic
Author(s): Alan Burn
RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | MILITARY HISTORY
Captain F J Walker, RN, did more than any other man at sea to win the Battle of the Atlantic, a vicious and unrelenting struggle which Churchill described as the dominating factor throughout World War Two.
He was a formidable figure and one of the greatest fighting captains in the Royal Navy, sinking twenty U-boats. For this he was awarded a CB and four DSOs.
A month after D-Day, exhausted by his continuous actions at sea against the enemy and his successful exertions to keep the U-boats out of the English Channel to ensure the safe passage of the Allied landings at D-day, he went ashore in Liverpool after a patrol. His ships and the men he had trained and inspired were already back at sea when he died on the 9 July, 1944, aged 48.
His ships went on to sink another nine U-boats, bringing his flotillas' total up to twenty-nine, before the U-boat fleet finally surrendered. Fifteen of which were sunk by Walker's own ship, HMS Starling.
1993, Reprint. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine d/w. Scans available if required.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Pen & Sword Books Limited
- : January 1993
- : books
Special Fields
- : 204
- : 359.332092
- : Hardback
- : Alan Burn