| Entry Text: | ORSBORNE, Dod. Master of the Girl Pat. x, 278p. New York: Doubleday, 1949.
An enjoyable autobiography full of tall tales. During the war, this RNR Skipper claims to have captained corvettes, been on a motor launch at the raid on St. Nazaire, been a Commando who was on the Tobruk raid, a parachutist into Belgium, Royal Marine Beachmaster at D-Day and in the Far East, been captured by and escaped from the Japanese, shot tigers, and fought crocodiles. |
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