| Entry Text: | DAVIES, Richard Bell. Sailor in the Air: The Memoirs of Vice Admiral Richard Bell Davies. x, 245p., illus., index. London: Davies, 1967. He joined the RN in 1901 and retired in 1941. Only the last eight pages are then concerned with Admiral Davies’ varied career in WWII. Although he retired in 1941, he almost immediately returned to service as a Convoy Commodore before being appointed to command the escort carrier Dasher. After taking part in the TORCH landings he became Captain of the trials escort carrier Pretoria Castle and retired for the second time in October 1944. Reprinted by Seaforth in 2008. |
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