| Entry Text: | DAVIES, John W. Jack: The Sailor with the Navy Blue Eyes. xiii, 284p., illus. Bishop Auckland: Pentland, 1995. ISBN: 1858212545.
Davies joined up in mid-1940. After basic training he volunteered for a course as an antiaircraft gunner, then joined ML 216 for two weeks before joining MGB 320. In 1942, after a refresher course at Whale Island he joined MGB 611 and stayed there until 1943 when he returned to Whale Island and trained as a Gunnery Instructor. The book ends as he arrives in Algiers as a newly fledged GI. Although interesting as a lower deck account of Coastal Forces the book is repetitious and rather self-indulgent. |
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