| Entry Text: | DEY, Frank. Swinging the Lamp: Recollections of the Fleet Air Arm 1939–1945. [v], 231p., illus. Edinburgh: Frankin, 1993. ISBN: 0952165309.
The rather dull memoirs of an Air Mechanic. He served ashore in the UK, then on Illustrious during her Mediterranean service. He was injured in the bomb attack which crippled her - and here his account is lively - then was hospitalised and served ashore in Egypt and Malta with 830 Squadron. In 1943 he returned to the UK and after leave and training joined 778, a trials and pilot conversion squadron. In July 1944 he was drafted to 804 Squadron which worked up in South Africa before joining Ameer which was based in Ceylon with the Eastern Fleet until war's end. |
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