| Entry Text: | FAIRBANKS, Douglas Jr. A Hell of a War. [ix], 278p., illus., index. London: Robson, 1995. ISBN: 0860519643.
In October 1941, well before Pearl Harbor, the movie actor chose to go to war, having been in the Naval Reserve. In his distinguished career and regularly in combat he served in the Neutrality Patrol, in PQ17 and on Wasp during her Malta Club Runs. He then joined Mountbatten's Combined Operations HQ and was soon in the Mediterranean with the American forces. He served in all the major and some minor Mediterranean landings in various forms of special or diversionary forces. He saw out the war in Washington. A light and self-deprecating account of a brave man. |
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