Entry Text: | SMITH, Alastair Carrick. Instantaneous Echoes: When U-Boats Were the Enemy. 256p., bibliog., illus., index. Yeovil: author, 1994. ISBN: 0952457806.
He joined up in 1942 as an OD and CW candidate. He joined Atherstone and served in the Western Mediterranean. After training at King Alfred he joined Vidette in the North Atlantic. In late 1943 he went to New York for the commissioning of Inman and served in her until the end of the war. A rather ordinary account strongest on his North Atlantic service. |
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