| Entry Text: | McARA, Charles. Mainly in Minesweepers: A Scot at Sea. [viii], 261p., illus. London: Leach, 1991. ISBN: 1873050070.
He joined up at the start of the war, failed flying training with the FAA, then took officer training and went to minesweepers. He joined Bude, sweeping in the Channel, then worked up Brixham which moved to the Mediterranean for Torch and the later invasions in Sicily and Italy and then work in Greek waters before returning to the UK in December 1944. He next joined Medway Queen in the Training Squadron at Granton as First Lieutenant. A nostalgic account of a "good war." |
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