| Entry Text: | MacKINTOSH, J. W. (Dick). The Hunts and the Hunted or Keep Swimming Soldier. xiii, 230p. Durham: Pentland, 1992. ISBN: 1872795676.
A fictionalised autobiography. The author joined up in 1939 and after training as a Signalman worked on merchantmen on the staff of convoy commodores. He was commissioned early in 1941 and became a Boarding Officer based in the West of Scotland. After further training he joined North Sea escorts briefly (including the Dieppe Raid) and then Penylan (Ramsey in the book) in which he was sunk in December 1942. He then joined another Hunt and served in the Mediterranean through the various invasions. In late 1944 he was given a shore job at a Mediterranean repair base. |
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