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JOHNSON-ALLEN, John. They Were Just Skulls: The Naval Career of Fred Henley, Last Survivor of HM Submarine Truculent. 128p., bibliog., illus., index. Dunbeath: Whittles Publishing, 2018. ISBN: 9781849954044.
A biography based on hours of recorded interviews. Henley had a busy war from Arctic convoys and hunting German raiders to working with Special Forces in the Greek Islands. After the war he continued in service and was a survivor of the submarine Truculent when she sank in the Thames in 1950. A well delivered account of a rich and interesting life.
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