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| 3342 | GERMAN, Tony. The Sea is at Our Gates: The History of the Canadian Navy. 360p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990. ISBN: 0771032692.
Commander German provides a solid general history with over one-third directed at WWII. |
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| 3343 | GOODWIN, James. "Our Gallant Doctor". Enigma and Tragedy: Surgeon Lieutenant George Hendry and HMCS Ottawa, 1942. 280p., bibliog.., illus., index. Toronto: Dundurn, 2007. ISBN: 1550026879.
Trapped in an unwelcome marriage he virtually ran away to sea and went down in the tragic sinking of the destroyer. |
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| 3344 | GRAVES, Donald E. In Peril on the Sea: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio for the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, 2003. ISBN: 189694132X.
Full of personal accounts, this is a popular history to restore the memory of "a forgotten fighting service". |
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| 3345 | GREER, Rosamond "Fiddy." The Girls of the King's Navy. 160p., bibliog., illus. Vancouver: Sono Nis, 1983. ISBN: 0919203132.
A memoir of war in the WRCNS from 1943 to 1945. |
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| 3346 | HACKING, Norman. The Two Barneys. Captain Bernard Leitch Johnson, C.B.E.,D.S.O.- 1878-1968. Captain Bernard Dodds Leitch Johnson, O.B.E. – 1904-1977. 63p., bibliog., illus. Vancouver, BC: Gordon Soules, 1984.
A brief autobiographical essay on two legendary British Colombian seamen. Both were actively engaged in the war. The father mainly had administrative roles while the son served in the Atlantic. |
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| 3347 | HADLEY, Michael, HUEBERT, Rob, & CRICKARD, Fred W. A Nation's Navy: In Quest of Canadian Naval Identity. xxiv, 460p., bibliog., illus., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1996. ISBN: 0773515062.
A collection of essays by leading historians from the Second Fleet Historical Conference in Halifax. Covers a huge range of topics from A/S warfare to the WRNS. |
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| 3348 | HARBRON, John D. The Longest Battle: The RCN in the Atlantic 1939–1945. 132p., bibliog., illus., index. St Catharines, Ont.:Vanwell, 1993. ISBN: 1551250020.
Really an illustrated scrapbook. |
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| 3349 | JENSON, Latham B. Tin Hats, Oilskins and Seaboots: A Naval Journey 1938–1945. 312p., illus., index. Toronto: Robin Brass, 2000. ISBN: 1896941141.
One of Canada's favourite artists, he joined the RCN as an officer cadet in 1939. He spent two years training with the RN on Renown, Matabele, and Hood, seeing action from the South Atlantic to Norway. In 1941 he joined Ottawa and after her sinking moved to Niagara as Executive Officer. In 1943 he briefly commanded the corvette Long Branch before taking over as executive officer on Algonquin, where he spent the rest of the war on very active service. The book is beautifully illustrated with his line drawings. |
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| 3350 | JOHN, David. Salty Dips, Vol. 5 Up Spirits. iv, 269p. Ottawa: Ottawa Branch Naval Officers' Association of Canada, 1998. ISBN: 0969134258.
This volume continues the series first edited by Lynch (below) and contains the usual wide mix of stories from Japanese POW tales to the raid on Spitzbergen, corvette service, and D-Day. |
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| 3351 | JOHN, David. Salty Dips, Vol. 6 Ready Aye Ready. iv, 283p. Ottawa: Ottawa Branch Naval Officers' Association of Canada, 1999. ISBN: 0969134266.
Another mixed set of reminiscences from WRCNS to destroyer command aged 25. |
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| 3352 | JOHN, David. Salty Dips, Vol. 7 Stand Easy. iv, 272p. Ottawa: Ottawa Branch Naval Officers' Association of Canada, 2000. ISBN: 0969134274.
More oral history covering a fascinating range from covert operations in the Far East to the corvette St. Thomas sinking U 877. |
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| 3353 | JOHNSTON, Mac. Corvettes Canada: Convoy Veterans of WWII Tell Their True Stories. x, 310p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: McGraw Hill, 1994. ISBN: 0075513811.
A collection of reminiscences from 250 men who served in 50 corvettes. Loosely arranged into chapters covering different time periods or aspects of life at sea. |
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| 3354 | KEALY, J. D. F., & RUSSELL, E. C. A History of Canadian Naval Aviation, 1918–1962. ix, 164p., bibliog., illus., index. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1967.
Gives good detail of the operational history of Nabob and Puncher in a wider work. |
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| 3355 | LAMB, James B. The Corvette Navy: True Stories from Canada's Atlantic War. v, 179p. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1979. ISBN: 0770515789.
A newspaperman who served in corvettes uses a mixture of fact and personal recollection to describe life in the wartime RCN. A second edition was published by Stoddart in 2000. |
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| 3356 | LAMB, James B. On the Triangle Run. xv, 237p., bibliog., illus. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1986. ISBN: 0771597460. Another varied and enthralling set of memories from an accomplished storyteller. A second edition was published by Stoddart in 2000, ISBN: 0773732551. |
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| 3357 | LAWRENCE, Hal. A Bloody War: One Man's Memories of the Canadian Navy 1939–45. ix, 193p., illus. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1979. ISBN: 077051734X.
The war memoirs of a volunteer who became a career officer. He served in the Atlantic on Alaunia; on Oakville and Moosejaw in the North and South Atlantic and finally on Sioux. The story is well-told and rich with anecdote. |
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| 3358 | LAWRENCE, Hal. Tales of the North Atlantic. 256p., illus., index. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985. ISBN: 0771047304.
An informal history of the RCN, with a ragbag of memories, facts and tall tales. |
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| 3359 | LAWRENCE, Hal. Victory at Sea: Tales of His Majesty's Coastal Forces. 322p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1989. 0771047274.
The author's usual very readable mix of history, anecdote and personal recollection looking principally at the Canadian contribution to Coastal Forces in the Channel and the Mediterranean. |
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| 3360 | LAY, H. Nelson. Memoirs of a Mariner. ix, 326p., illus. Stittsville, Ont.: Canada's Wings, 1982. ISBN: 0920002145.
Describes a distinguished career of 40 years in the RCN. In September 1939 he was in Halifax preparing the port for war, but by Christmas had been given command of Restigouche. In 1940 she was largely based in the UK and covered everything from anti-invasion duties to East Coast and Atlantic convoys, finishing up back in Halifax. After a refit it was back to the UK and more escort until in June 1941 he was appointed Director of the Operations Division in Ottawa. In October 1943 he took over as CO of Nabob and was with her until her near-fatal sinking 12 months later. Various staff appointments followed until the end of the war. |
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| 3361 | LAYARD, A.F.C. Commanding Canadians: The Second World War Diaries of A.F.C. Layard edited by Michael Whitby. xv, 383p., bibliog., illus., index. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. ISBN: 0774811935.
Layard was a complex character who led an RCN escort group although an RN officer. The diary is eloquent in its own right and is lightly edited and has good introductory essays. The diary covers the period 1943-45 when his group was active in the inshore waters of the UK. |
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