| Entry Text: | HOUSTOUN, Lindsay. The Men's End. 118p., illus. Lewes: Book Guild, 1986. ISBN: 0863321461.
He volunteered for the FAA in September 1939 and after training and a spell in a second-line squadron soon joined Esmonde's squadron and was almost at once hunting the Bismarck from Victorious. He spent much time on her and Ark Royal with Force H at the "Men's End" of the Mediterranean. A series of tragedies left him in and out of hospital in 1942–43 and he spent the rest of the war as a DLCO training officer. A patchy and spasmodic account. |
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