| Entry Text: | DALZEL-JOB, Patrick. From Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy. xv, 184p., illus. Plockton: Nead-an-Eoin, 1992. ISBN: 0862998425.
As a youth he lived on a small brigantine with his widowed mother, often cruising in Norwegian waters. He was commissioned in 1939 and his knowledge of Norway sent him there in April 1940, where he managed a flotilla of small ships. Although these mainly moved troops, he evacuated the population of Narvik against orders. After a spell on an AMC he was based in the Shetlands to run MTB operations to Norway. In mid-1943 he moved to X-craft and later took a parachute course. He then joined 30th Assault Unit a Naval Intelligence Unit, which tried to capture papers and equipment before they could be destroyed. The unit landed on D+4 and kept up with or ahead of forward elements through France and Germany until VE Day. 30AU worked for Ian Fleming and Dalzel-Job is seen by some as a prototype for James Bond. |
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