| Entry Text: | MILLS, N. H. Fleet Air Arm memories: Tales of the Brummagem Bastard. 114p., illus. [n.p.], R.S. Pyne, 2017. ISBN: 978152024767. Norman Harry Mills did not suffer fools gladly. Nicknamed the Brummagem Bastard, he was a fanatical Ockers (Ludo) player as well as a Communist. His memoirs include the Pedestal Convoy, Operation Torch when he was attached to the naval battalion with the first army in North Africa (1943); the Sicily and Italian campaign of 1944 and dealing with kamikazes in May 1945. Edited by his grandson. |
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