| Entry Text: | BAKER, John. Ajax and 940. x, 140p., illus. Braintree: Writing Life, 2004. ISBN: 0954446550.
He joined up as a fifteen year old boy sailor in 1939. After training he joined Ajax in the Mediterranean. When she returned to the UK in mid-1942, he was transferred to landing craft and combined operations. He soon joined LCT 940 as coxswain and the bulk of the book describes her career, culminating in the Normandy landings and his post-war life. |
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