| Entry Text: | McCRUM, Tony. Sunk by Stukas, Survived at Salerno: The Memoirs of Captain Tony McCrum. 183p., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2010. ISBN: 1848842511.
In September 1939 he was serving on Skipjack as navigator. She was sunk at Dunkirk. He next went to Bridlington as First Lieutenant, then in June 1941 he joined Mendip. Next came a complete change when he became the Signals Officer in Charge on Largs. In April 1943, she arrived in North Africa and he spent eighteen months working in the Mediterranean theatre. In January 1945 he joined Tartar as Staff Signals Officer, 8th DF. They were bound for the Far East and in Trincomalee at war's end. |
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