| Entry Text: | EADON, Stuart. Sakishima and Back: Where Men with Splendid Hearts May Go. 311p., illus., index. Upton-upon-Severn: Charity Books, 1988. ISBN: 1854210106.
Eadon volunteered in 1942 and after seatime on Berwick in the Arctic and training at King Alfred he joined Formidable at Gibraltar in the cypher office. He saw the attacks on Sicily and Salerno then returned to the Clyde to stand by Indefatigable, as an Air Landing Control Officer. In July 1944 she attacked Tirpitz and in November left to join the Pacific Fleet. Almost two-thirds of the book is devoted to his experiences in the Far East. The work is notably laced with the reminiscences of almost 50 shipmates. |
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